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Marcus Gavius Apicius
Apicius
Marcus Gavius Apicius (early 1st c. AD), a fabulously wealthy gourmand who, the story goes, poisoned himself when his fortune fell to a 'mere' ten million sesterces. A cookbook later bore his name.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §10 than Apicius lived
The notorious epicure Apicius, who 'professed the science of the cook-shop' and killed himself rather than live on ten million sesterces.
- On the Happy Life §11.4 Apicius
Marcus Gavius Apicius, a famous gourmand of the early empire whose name became a byword for gluttonous luxury; said to have killed himself when his fortune fell too low to sustain his table.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.95.42 Apicius
Marcus Gavius Apicius, the proverbial gourmet of Tiberius's reign, whose name became a byword for extravagant eating.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §20.120.19 Apicius
M. Gavius Apicius, the proverbial gourmand of Tiberius's day, by-word for extravagant feasting (set here against the frugal Curius).