Sentence:  A certain abbot, named Moses, thus testifieth of himself in the <WSD>Collations</WSD> of Cassianus, that he so afflicted himself with much fasting and watching, that sometimes, for two or three days together, not only he felt no appetite to eat, but also had no remembrance of any meat at all ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The "Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium" by (John Cassian), an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) (from 13th c.)