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Question 104. Why did they call Bacchus Liber
Pater?
Solution. Was the reason because they make him, as
it were, the father of liberty to tipplers? For most men
become very audacious and are filled with too much licentious prattle, by reason of too much drink. Or is this it,
that he hath supplied them with a libamen, a drink-offering? Or is it, as Alexander hath said, that Bacchus is called
Eleutherius from his having his abode about Eleutherae, a
city of Boeotia?
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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