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On Overeating (peri polyphagias)
On Overeating
also: Nikōnos peri polyphagias, On Overeating
A treatise by the physician Nico on excessive eating, which Cicero playfully carried off from Sex. Fadius at Velia (Fam. 7.20).
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 7.20 §3 I have carried off from Sex. Fadius, Nico's pupil, a book of Nico's
Cicero, who jokes about his own appetite, playfully made off with the physician Nico's treatise peri polyphagias (On Overeating) from Nico's pupil Sex. Fadius. The Greek title is rendered in the Latin manuscript in transliterated Greek.