In Epicurus, the teacher of pleasure used to observe stated intervals during which he satisfied his hunger in miserly fashion. Do you think that there can be fullness on such fair? Yes, and there is pleasure also, not that shifty and fleeting pleasure, but a pleasure that is steadfast and sure. For though water, barleymeal, and crusts of barley bread are not a cheerful diet, yet it is the highest kind of pleasure to be able to derive pleasure from this sort of food. In prison fare is more generous, and those who have been set apart for capital punishment are not so meanly fed by the man who is to execute them. This is indeed forestalling the