Some classical shitlording Therefore those who, as Sallust puts it, "hearken to their bellies," should be numbered among the animals, and not among men; and certain men, indeed, should be numbered, not even among the animals, but among the dead. From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 60, by Seneca  https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_60