Epicure vs Sybarite - What's the difference?
epicure | sybarite |
A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
* 1969 , Victor Ernest Watts (translator), (author), The (Consolation of Philosophy) , (Penguin Books), book III, chapter iv, page 87:
* 2011 December 16th, William Grimes, “Obituary of Christopher Hitchens” in the New York Times :
As a proper noun epicure
is epicurus.As a noun sybarite is
a native or inhabitant of sybaris.sybarite
English
Noun
(en noun)- Although the proud lord clothed himself // In purple robes and gem-stones white, // Yet Nero grew to all men’s hate // A wild and cruel sybarite .
- Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite . He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night.
