Pliny the Elder Quotes About Food
-
...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
→ -
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
→ -
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
→ -
Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.
→ -
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
→
Related Authors
-
Plutarch Biographer -
Ptolemy Writer -
Ovid Poet -
Tacitus Historian -
Galen Physician -
-
Strabo Geographer -
Pliny the Younger Author -
-
Marcus Tullius Cicero Philosopher -
Herodotus Historian -
Marcus Terentius Varro Writer -
Lucretius Poet -
Livy Historian -
Augustus Roman emperor -
Martial Poet -
Suetonius Historian -
Seneca the Younger Philosopher -
Aristotle Philosopher -
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Author