Original artwork, not a still
Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Bacchus is praised in a festive poetic image as perpetually beautiful and young. The line invokes the wine god, rather than claiming that drinking preserves youth.
Sources (1)
- Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (1891)Dryden, Alexander’s Feast, line 54Reference checked
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