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ROMAN LIQUOR LAWS

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 12.

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ROMAN LIQUOR LAWS.

The Romans, under the republic, were prohibitionists after a fashion. Men of honorable family were forbidden by law to drink wine before the age of thirty, or to drink to excess; while for a woman of any condition, free or slave, to touch wine except on some solemn occasion, as a sacrifice, was an offense visited by severe penalties. It seems that the old Romans had not discovered that wine-drinking promotes temperance. The "gospel of the grape" is of modern invention, and instead of being in the interest of sobriety, is in the interest of wine growers and dealers.