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Basil in an Epistle to Julian mentions the mean fare he and others with him lived withal, he ate no flesh, they had need of no Cook, the leaves of plants, and a little bread, was all their provision. And Jerome reports of Hilarion, that he never ate any thing before the Sun went down, and that which at any time he ate was very mean: From the fifteenth year of his ¹age to the twentieth, his only diet was fifteen dried figs a day; for three years after that, only bread and water; for nine years together, six ounces of barley bread in a day; yet he lived till he was fourscore years old. And Jerome himself lived exceedingly abstemiously, with cold water, and a few dried figs, so that by him, and others with whom he lived, to eat any thing boiled, was even accounted luxury. And Augustine hath such an expression concerning himself; Thou Lord hast taught me this, that I should go to my ⟨p. 117⟩meat as to a medicine: He meant not to satisfy his appetite, but to repair nature.²

Basil in an Epistle to Iulian mentions the mean fare he and others with him lived withal, he ate no flesh, they had need of no Cook, the leaves of plants, and a little bread, was all their provision. And Ierome reports of Hilarion, that he never ate any thing before the Sun went down, and that which at any time he ate was very mean: From the fifteenth year of his ¹age to the twentieth, his onely diet was fifteen dryed figs a day; for three years after that, onely bread and water; for nine years together, six ounces of barley bread in a day; yet he lived till he was fourscore years old. And Ierome himself lived exceedingly abstemiously, with cold water, and a few dryed figs, so that by him, and others with whom he lived, to eat any thing boyled, was even accouted luxury. And Augustine hath such an expression concerning himself; Thou Lord hast taught me this, that I should go to my ⟨p. 117⟩meat as to a medicine: He meant not to satisfie his appetite, but to repair nature.²