When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

In keeping with Aristophanic comedy, the lines present wine as a comic panacea: drinkers suddenly become “rich,” “successful,” persuasive in court, cheerful, and socially generous. The exaggeration satirizes Athenian self-image and civic institutions—especially the law courts—by implying that confidence and verbal brilliance can be chemically induced rather than earned through virtue or reason. The speaker’s request for a beaker “so that I may wet my mind and say something clever” also pokes fun at the culture of symposia and rhetorical display, where wit and public speech are prized. The humor depends on the tension between the obvious falsity of the claim and the familiar experience that alcohol can loosen tongues and inflate self-assurance.