The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-04
GLUrrONS AND ELIMINATING MEN
Let him be dam'd like the glutton.
Henry w., act ], scene ,
Ny noble friend, chew upon this.
I'll not I

Let him be dam'd like the glutton.
Henry ", act /, scene ,
Ny noble friend, chew upon this.
Julius Cesar, act /, scene 2
Nature, in the formation of man,
teaches him temperance, by bestowing
upon him little mouth, with mar
row throat and smaller stomach than
falls to the lot ofother living creatures
vet some are so unnatural that they
make the kitchen their shrine, the
cook their high priest, the table their
altar, and the belly their god. As a
French proverb, reads, "They dig
their graves with their teeth" When
men gormandize and stuff themselves
with the goodly things of life merely
for the qualification of brutal appe-
tite, they may be considered as mon
sters in nature, and should be punish
ed for endeavoring TO bring about
famine in the place where they reside.
In the English "Dance of Death,
under the title of 'eThe .GluttOn," we
read that
OF any grovelling slave Of sense,
No one can claim so small pretenc
To that indulgence which the wise
Allow 70 human frailtieS,
AS the inglorious, beastly sinner,
ee as
Whose gloating eyes view every dish
or boiled, and roast, OF soups and fish
OF caIlipash and fstten'd haunch,
TIL he has filled his bloated paunch;
And then the rich ragOuts restore
The stomach, tin il holds no more.
Nothing can De said in favor Of
such men, whose sole aim in life is To
eat, drink and sleep, and they came
into the world like wild beasts seek
ing whom they may devour. 1t is too
true that the spendthrift has often en-
tOmbed his ancestors in his own bow
els, and it is true also that inOrdinate
eating kills as many as the musket.
While searching through musty
tones of ancient lore, by the flicker
ing light of a Students lamp, we dis
covered that Milo, the Cretonian, who
hOurished five hundred years before
Christ, was accustomed to eat twenty
pounds of flesh and as many of bread
in day, and for the purpose of aiding
digestion and improving his appetite,
he INDUCED in three gallons of wine
at one sitting. In the Olympic Games,
when he had taken up an OK on his
shoulders and borne him a fIrlOng, he
claimed the carcass as his reward,
and in the course of the day, having
devOured the flesh of the animal, like
Oliver Twist, he craved for more.
Over four hundred years after his
time, (6l B. c. Astydamus, the Mil
esian, who had been three times con-
queror in the Olympic Games, being
invited by Ariobarzanes, the Persian,
TO supper, promised that ne would eat !
up all which was provided for the
whole company. He easily accom-
plished the task, and with evident rel
ish slowed away an amount of food |
which would otherwise have served |
for the meals of ninety hearty men.
The glory, if there be any, of having |
a voracious appetite does not belong |
alone to men in the lowest ranks of
society, for We read that Aulus Vitel-
Illus, Roman Emperor, who was as
sassinated A. d. So, was addicted to |
such immeasurable gluttony that his
captains were constantly employed in
providing him with dainties. AT one |
Of his sGppers there were 1000 plates
of fish and 1000 dishes OF fowls, and |
yet he commended, his temperance in
a set grafton before the Senate and |
people Of Rome. In the few months
which he reigned, he wasted in luxu-
rious living about Sl56, $50 in gold.
ClOdius Albinus, another Roman
Emperor, who was slain in battle A.
ID. 197, thought that a bushel of ap-
pies was but a very small part of a
dessert. For his breakfast he would
eat 500 figs, 100 peaches, ten melons,
twenty pound weight of grapes, 100
becaficos and 400 oysters. What would
the hotel proprietors of the present
day think of such a customer? II
HeliOgablaus, Emperor of Rome.
who was assasSinated A. ID. 222, would
eat no fish near the sea, and, i'm the /.
midland, no flesh. Some of his feasts
during which whole meals were made !
of the tongues of singing birds and {
peac0clSs, or of the brains of costly {
animals, We're continued for the space (
of three weeks without inteFruptton. {
for, as soon as his stomach was satia- I
ted, he would rid himself of the costly /
burden by means of AN iemetic. He a
used to affirm "that meat was not saw /
ory whose sauce was not cOstly.r 7
MaXaminus, also Emperor of Rome.
assassinated in A. d. 256, was eight .sl
feet high, his body great and Joints
his diet was commeD-
surate with his strength. for he daily
devOured forty pounds of flesh and r
drank six gallons of wine He be- a
came so fat, in consequence of excess
i've eating, that his wife's bracelets on
ly served him for thumb rings-a n
kind of ornament much worn by men {
IN the early part of the Christian era. I
In the reign ofthe Emperor Aure- a
ianus, A. ID. 275, a person by the b
name of Phagou, at one meal, ate a II
whole boar, "a hundred loaves of bread, a
4 sheep, a pig, and drank above three c
gallons of wine. a man of his calibre v
would undoubtedly create famine in P
/ country boarding house c
HeRodotus, trumpeter of Megara a
Usually made a slight repast. His ia {
Forite meal consisted of six immense Fl
caves of bread and twenty pounds of is
uch flesh as came TO hand, with two /
gallons of wine as sure and speedy e
help to digestion. Ii
Athenaus, a Greek grammarian Of n
he third century, states that Sheag- a
snes Shasius, wrestler, was of that c
that in one day only, without {;
my other assistance, he would devour n
whole OK. The same writer also de-
;lares, there was woman of Alex
andria, who used to eat at once twelve O.
POUNDS OF fesh and about four pounds 2
0t bread, together with it drank uD 7
ten pints of wine" - !. !
Theodoret, Bishop of Cyprus, an IL .
lustrious ecclesiastical historian. who :
lied in A. ID. 42S, relates that a wo- = =
man of Syria, that was in the habit of II II
eating thirty fowls day without be- =
ing satisfied. E
Hardicanute, the last of the Danes. n
who reigned in England, was so great 5
4 glutton that he has been called bv r