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Well then, in the case of the desires which are strictly and

properly natural few men go wrong and all in one direction, that

is, on the side of too much: I mean, to eat and drink of such

food as happens to be on the table till one is overfilled is

exceeding in quantity the natural limit, since the natural desire

is simply a supply of a real deficiency.

For this reason these men are called belly-mad, as filling it

beyond what they ought, and it is the slavish who become of this

character.