To his entreaty that he would accompany him, Paulus only answered: "No-no; not now, not now; for if I were to mix with men now I should fly asunder like a rotten wineskin full of fermenting wine; a swarm of bees is buzzing in my head, and an ant-hill is growing in my bosom.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
When you make new wine, do you pour it right into a dry, stiff wineskin that has been used before?"
"Men Called Him Master"
Elwyn Allen Smith
German scholars have adopted the doctrine that Marsyas belonged to that mythological group which they designate as "Schlauch-silen" or, as we would say in English, "wineskin-bearing Silenuses."
"The Satyricon, Complete"
Petronius Arbiter