Milos himself, painting mostly at night until early in the morning, has had a very active social life with many friends, often emigrants like him, and Bacchus surely played a major role during these events. My suggestion is that Milos, through his various paintings dealing with the theme «alcohol, wanted to commemorate all his acquaintances and friends who had suffered from abusive alcohol consumption and, at the same time, to exorcize alcohol as a warning to himself to « never pass the Rubicon ».