Pallas and Bacchus by Alciato
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That foresight is improved by wine
Father Bacchus and Pallas, both true children of Jupiter, hold this Temple
jointly.
She was freed from her father's head, he from his thigh;
to Pallas is due the use of the olive, while Bacchus first discovered
wine.
Justly are they joined;
for if an abstemious man hates wine,
he'll have no help from the Goddess.
Andrea Alciato, 1531. Book of Emblems, Emblem 23.
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