De Somniis (lib. i-ii)

"for when," the scripture says, "the high priest goes into the Holy of Holies he will not be a man." [*](Leviticus xvi. 17. ) What then will he be if he is not a man? Will he be God? I would not venture to say that (for the chief prophet, Moses, did receive the inheritance of this name while he was still in Egypt, being called "the god of Pharaoh;") [*](Exodus vu. 1. ) nor again is he man, but he touches both these extremities as if he touched both the feet and the head.

So now one kind of vine, which has been assigned as the portion of cheerfulness, and the intoxication which arises from it, namely unmingled goodness of counsel, and the cup-bearer too who drew the wine from the divine goblet, which God himself has filled with virtues up to the lip, has been explained;