Gluttony

To eat then sleep beyond it no belief,

Any food however lends thee

no relief. . .

Hog in the morning, Hog in the evening,

Food for ‘thought’, for thee no meaning. . .

Shrouded in hunger, thy horizon thin,

Filled to the brim yet empty within. . .

 Like Sus frolicking in the muddy pool,

Thy mind is clogged, O petty fool. . .

 Temperance you hate, ostentatious spread,

Signs of doom ahead can’t be read. . .

 Prepropere, Ardenter, Forente, Laute, Nimis and Studiose;

Is how thee get Beelzebub close. . .

 Gluttony is what thy sin is dear,

Only Sophrosyne now, can bring satisfaction near. . .

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Notes:

1. Thomas Aquinas, a medieval church leader prepared a list of six ways to commit gluttony, comprising:

• Praepropere – eating too soon
• Laute – eating too expensively
• Nimis – eating too much
• Ardenter – eating too eagerly
• Studiose – eating too daintily
• Forente – eating wildly

2. Beelzebub is the demon of gluttony.

3. Sophrosyne  is a Greek philosophical term etymologically meaning healthy-mindedness and from there self-control or moderation guided by knowledge and balance. Roman poet Juvenal later interpreted sophrosyne as “mens sana in corpore sano” (“a healthy mind in a healthy body”).