Here's what Paolo Nencini says in the article: "The negative
consequences of having sex when intoxicated were extended to the
product of conception, as we can infer from Plato's quite amazing
description of what we now call the 'fetal alcohol syndrome.'"
 
I didn't mean to imply that Nencini was being anachronistic. His use of
"what we call now" and quotation marks around FAS shows that he is
well aware that FAS is a modern construct.