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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Paroinia
Paroinia (Ancient Greek): "The dwarf-god and man-god drank for two hours but neither entered the state that Achilles people called paroinia--'intoxication frenzy.'" (Simmons, Dan. Olympos (HarperTorch, 2006: 438)
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