Note 222-3 — Chapter I

Drunkenness a common vice of northern people: thus in antiquity the Thracians (Athen., X, 42; Xenoph., Exp. Cyri, VII, 3, 32), the Macedonians, for instance, Philips (Demosth., Olynth., II, 23) and Alexander's (Plutarch, Alex., 70; De Adulat, 13). To drink like a Scythian, meant, among the Greeks, to drink like a beast. (Athen., X, 427; Herod., VI, 84.) On North German drunkenness in the 16th century, see Seb. Münster, Cosmogr., 326, 730. Kantzow, Pomerania, II, 128.