Note 44 — BOOK X.
Charles Duke Yonge translation
The cyathus held the twelfth part of a sextarius, which was about a pint; and the Romans who wished to preserve a character for moderation used to mix their wine in the proportion of nine cyathi of water to three of wine. Poets, who, according to Horace, were good for nothing till they were inebriated, reversed these proportions:—
Tribus aut novem Miscentur cyathis pocula commodis. Qui Musas amat impares, Ternos ter cyathos attonitus petit Vates. Tres prohibet supra Rixarum metuens tangere Gratia, Nudis juncta sororibus.—Hor. iii. 19. 11.