Possible Clues:

• Period of five years
• Half-decade, in old Rome
• Five years of passionate desire - strange!
• Five years of desperate desire - weird
• Desire spirit to be shown for a period of five years
• Lechery and drink gets one five years
• Ceremonial purification of the Roman people made every five years
• Five-year craving for strong drink
• Had an irrepressible desire to drink for a number of years
• Left university to play guitar for several years