Piso. What do you mean by that? Do we wash ourselves (an lavamur)? Every day, hands and face, and indeed, frequently, for cleanliness of body is conducive to health and to nurture.
Nep. That is not what I ask—but whether you get food and drink to your mind?
Piso. We don’t eat according to our desire, but according to the call of the palate.
Nep. I ask, if you eat, as you wish.
Piso. Certainly, forsooth, as hunger dictates. Who wishes to eat, eats; who does not wish, abstains.
Nep. Do you go from the table hungry?
Piso. By no means sated. For this is not wise. For it is the part of beasts, not men, to glut themselves. They say that a certain wise king never sat down to table without hunger, and never stood up sated.
Nep. What do you eat, then?
Piso. What there is.