Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
common eating empty
A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]
eating flavor pleasure
The pleasure of eating is not in the costly flavor but in yourself.
corn eating grind
Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
sauce eating pleasure
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
chief consist eating exquisite flavor pleasure seasoning
The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself