[lbo-talk] LOBster talk

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Tue Aug 12 09:19:14 PDT 2008


It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberation, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

Herodotus: On The Customs of the Persians, c. 430 BCE

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