LIBER XXVIII · CAPUT 5
REMEDIES DEPENDING UPON THE HUMAN WILL
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
sicut totius corporis valetudini in varietate victus inobservata. Hippocrates tradit non prandentium celerius senescere exta; verum id remediis cecinit, non epulis, quippe multo utilissima est temperantia in cibis. L. Lucullus hanc de se praefecturam servo dederat, ultimoque probro manus in cibis triumphali seni deiciebatur vel in Capitolio epulanti, pudenda re servo suo facilius parere quam sibi.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
Hippocrates informs us that the viscera of persons who do not take the morning meal become prematurely aged and feeble; but then he has pronounced this aphorism, it must be remembered, by way of suggesting a healthful regimen, and not to promote gluttony; for moderation in diet is, after all, the thing most conducive to health. L. Lucullus gave charge to one of his slaves to overlook him in this respect; and, a thing that reflected the highest discredit on him, when, now an aged man and laden with triumphs, he was feasting in the Capitol even his hand had to be removed from the dish to which he was about to help himself. Surely it was a disgrace for a man to be governed by his own slave more easily than by himself!