Philo Judaeus De Ebrietate 166

[166] But sober reasoning does not admit these things, but only that reasoning does so which is overcome with wine, and, as it were, drunk. 41 On which account it is said, "They made their father drink wine." ¹ That is to say, they brought complete insensibility on the mind, so that it fancied itself competent by its own abilities to judge what was expedient, and to assent to all sorts of apparent facts, as if they really had solid truth in them; human nature being by no means and under no circumstances competent either to ascertain the truth by consideration, or to choose real truth and advantage, or to reject what is false and the cause of injury;