The unanimous consent of an audience is so powerful, that even JULIUS CAESAR (as MACROBIOS reports of him), when he, was Perpetual Dictator, was not able to balance it, on the other side: but when LABERIUS, a Roman knight, at his request, contended in the Mime with another poet; he was forced to cry out, Etiam favente me victus es Liberi.

First come natural and necessary needs, such as, when not satisfied, produce pain,food and clothing, victus et amictus, needs which can easily be satisfied.

If he be safe and sound on the other side, and free from all manner of infirmity; et cui "Gratia, forma, valetudo contingat abunde Et mundus victus, non deficiente crumena.

With us, Maxima pars victus in carne consistit, we feed on flesh most part, saith Polydore Virgil, as all northern countries do; and it would be very offensive to us to live after their diet, or they to live after ours.

For the rest, as they have base fortunes, so have they base minds correspondent, like beetles, e stercore orti, e stercore victus, in stercore delicium, as they were obscurely born and bred, so they delight in obscenity; they are not thoroughly touched with it.

Diet, [Greek: Diaitaetikae], victus, or living, according to Fuchsius and others, comprehends those six non-natural things, which I have before specified, are especial causes, and being rectified, a sole or chief part of the cure.

[4450]author, quod extendi et locupletari hoc subjectum plerique postulabant, et eorum importunitate victus, animum utcunque renitentem eo adegi, ut jam sexta vice calamum in manum sumerem, scriptionique longe et

Victus sum fateor a Daphnide, &c.

Maxima pars victus in carne consistit.

Islandiae descriptione victus corum butyro, lacte, caseo consistit: pisces loco panis habent, potus aqua, aut serum, sic vivunt sine medicina multa ad annos 200.

Bello victus, per tres dies sedit in prora navis, abstinens ab omni consortio, etiam Cleopatiae, postea se interfecit.

Quisquis est ille quem aemularis, cui invides is te subterfugere potest, at tu non te ubicunque fugeris adversarius tuus tecum est, hostis tuus semper in pectore tuo est, pernicies intus inclusa, ligatus es, victus, zelo dominante captivus: nec solatia tibi ulla subveniunt; hinc diabolus inter initia statim mundi, et periit primus, et perdidit, Cyprian, ser.

Millies potius moriturum (si quis sibi mente constaret) quam tam vilis et aerumnosi victus communionem habere. 2287.

Melancholiam, quae fit a redundantia humoris in toto corpore, victus imprimis generat qui eum humorem parit. 2451.

Frustra fatigant remediis aegros, qui victus ratione curari possunt, Heurnius. 2853.

1. Victus nomine non tam cibus et potus, sed aer, exercitatio, somnus, vigilia, et reliquae res sex non-naturales contineritur.

lib. 2. si celsitudo tua, rectam victus rationem, &c. 2891.

Eo quod risus esset laboris et modesti victus condimentum. 3528.

Victus eorum caseo et laete consistit, potus aqua et serum; pisces loco panis habent; ita multos annos saepe 250 absque medico et medicina vivunt.

Si sanguis abundet, quod scitur ex venarum repletione, victus ratione praecedente, risu aegri, aetate et aliis.

Victus sit attenuatus, balnei frequens usus et sudationes, cold baths, not hot, saith Magninus, part 3. ca.

Nam qui Tartareum in specus Victus lumina flexerit, Quidquid praecipuum trahit, Perdit, dum videt inferos.

Spelman derives this word from the Saxon term fearme, or feorme, which signifies victus, food, or provision, as the tenants and country people anciently paid their rents in victuals and other necessaries of life, but which was afterwards converted into the payment of certain sums of money.

Scire velim quare toties mihi, Naevole, tristis Occurras, fronte obducta, ceu Marsya victus.