Gluttony
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
gluttony · hunger · insatiable gullet · much-devouring · the belly
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Excessive desire for food beyond bodily need
Then I pass to you, whose deep and insatiable gullet ransacks now the seas, now the lands, pursues some prey with hooks, some with snares, some with various kinds of nets, at great labour;
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The vice of excessive eating and desire for food, presented as the primordial sin fasting is meant to correct.
Lust without gluttony would surely be reckoned a freak, since these two are so welded and grown together that, if they could ever be wholly separated, the parts of shame would not, in the first place, be attached so near the belly.
I hold, therefore, from the beginning, that the murderous gluttony was to be punished with the torments and sufferings of hunger, even had God enjoined no fasts at all.
And therefore, from men so ungrateful, all that was more pleasant and more dainty was withdrawn—at once to punish gluttony and to exercise continence, so that the one might be condemned and the other schooled.