And lash the lazy blood that creeps within."
Nor does Athenæus fail to depict a glutton of the period, transcribed from Pherecrates:
"A.I scarcely in one day, unless I'm forced,
Can eat two bushels and a half of food.
B.A most unhappy man! how have you lost
Your appetite, so as now to be content
With the scant rations of one ship of war?"
Milo of Crotona, Titormus the Ætolian, and Astydamas the Milesian were still more celebrated; and even Ulysses in his old age is represented by Homer as eating "endless dishes" and quaffing "unceasing cups of wine." Gargantua and Pantagruel evidently existed long before the days of Rabelais, and time will run back to fetch the age of gluttony, as well as that of gold.
