2. A man must not overload his stomach but be content always
with something less than is necessary to make him feel quite
satisfied. He should not drink much during the meal and only
of water and wine mixed, taking somewhat more after digestion
has begun and after digestion is completed, in moderation
according to his needs. Before a man sits down to table he
should note whether he has any tendency to evacuation and
should make the body warm by movement and activity. After this
exercise he should rest a little before taking food. It is
very beneficial after work to take a bath and then the meal.

3. Food should be taken always in the sitting position. There
should be no riding nor walking, nor movements of the body
until digestion is finished. The man who takes a walk or any
strenuous occupation immediately after eating subjects himself
to serious dangers of disease.

4. Day and night should be divided into twenty-four hours. Men
should sleep for eight hours, and so arrange their sleep that
the end of it comes with the dawn, so that from the beginning
of sleep until sunrise there should be an eight-hour interval.
We should all leave our beds about the time that the sun
rises.

5. During sleep a man should lie neither on his face nor on
his back but on his side, the beginning of the night on his
left and at the end on his right. He should not go to sleep
for three or four hours after eating and should not sleep
during the day.

6. Fruits that are laxative, as grapes, figs, melons, gourds,
should be taken only before meal time and not mixed with other
food. It would be better to let these get into the abdominal
organs and then take other food.

7. Eat what is easily digestible before what is difficult of
digestion. The flesh of birds before beef and the flesh of
calves before that of cows and steers. (Birds were then
thought more digestible than other flesh; we have reversed the
ruling. The note shows how light and digestible their flesh
was considered and the reason therefor.)

8. In summer eat cooling food, acids, and no spices. In
winter, on the contrary, eat warming foods, rich in spices,
mustard, and other heating substances. In cold and warm
climates one should eat according to the climatic conditions.

9. The