"One
day, on his way, Bacchus encountered a plant.
Having
deemed it delicate and to his taste, he took the bone of a bird and
slipped the plant into. As the plant grew, the god transferred it into a
lion's bone.
But
this bone becoming too cramped, Bacchus turned to the bone of a donkey to
host his find.
Cheerfulness,
strength, stupidity, the trilogy of wine : from its childhood, the vine
has received the gift to make happy and robust the one who drinks
moderately its exquisite juice and at the same time, to weaken and stupefy
the one who abuses. "