It may be all very well for you or me, whose legend should be "Prandeo, poto, cano, ludo, lego, coeno, quiesco," to laugh at them; but who shall say that they did not do their best, and, if they were stupid, pavonian, arrogant, self-sufficient, and top-heavy, that they were not honestly so?

"Quod comedo, poto, gigno, diris subjacet.