EPISODE · Jan 15, 2010
To a Glutton (Francesco Filelfo, Odes 1.9)
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Filelfo Odes 1.9 Si te trux adeo podagra torquet, nec cessat laterum dolor, podarge, affligitque premens nec exeundi urinae reperit viam profusus imber, pone modum gulae voraci 5 et dirae veneri. Quibus per omnis quando luxurias ruis protervus, morbum non pateris subactus unum. Membris te cruciat doloris haerens aestus. Quo penitus furis procellis 10 excitus rabidis per omne mentis excussae facinus, trahit volentem hanc corpus, ratio quod ipsa nullis fraenis compositum suprema rexit. Hinc fervet vitiis furens et atrae 15 pestis flammigerum recludit aestum. Hinc humana simul deumque iura contemnit penitus nefas omne praeceps flagitiisque prona cunctis. Quod si sustuleris nimis, podarge, 20 quod praestas veneri gulaeque turgens, nec torquebere corporis dolore, nec tot nequitiis comes protervus accedes populo levis susurrus. Text: Francesco Filelfo, Odes, ed. and trans. Diana Robin in the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)
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