Note 193 — Chapter VI · DIONYSUS THE MAN

See André L. Simon’s interesting work Wine and Spirits (Duckworth, 1919), p. xi: “Quite recently the laws of Khammarubi, King of Babylon about 2250 B.C., have been discovered and deciphered, and have aroused a great deal of interest. This sovereign appears to have been the great legislator of his dynasty; his laws contain the most precise regulations concerning the sale of wine, and show us the poor retailer of wine to have been harassed by a very severe legislation even in those times. Fines were not in vogue, but loss of a limb or of life was the penalty incurred by the seller of wine who gave bad quality or short measure or allowed riotous conduct on his premises.” See also pp. xiii and xiv.