Poem on temperance University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.Temperant.Vers Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Poem on temperance
Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere vitam Hanc mensam indignam noverit esse sui. Felix qui modico contentus vivere pastu Abstinet, et veterum servat vestigia patrum; Quique Dei tacito volvens sub pectore dicta Terreni fragilem moderatur corporis usum. Frustra corporeis aliquis se temperat escis, Si cupiat verbis aliorum carpere vitam.