Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Epicure

(3 syl.). A sensualist; one addicted to good eating and drinking. So called from Epicuros (q.v.).

Sir Epicure.
A worldly sensualist in The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson. His surname is “Mammon.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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