And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Ver. 13. Gathered all together] Convasatis veluti omnibus.
With riotous living] Ασωτως a Not caring to save any part, sibi nihil reservaus, imo seipsum non servans, being such as safety itself could not save; whence the Latins call such a man perditum, an undone person. Such were those of whom Seneca saith, that singulis auribus bina aut terna dependent patrimonia, hanged two or three good lordships at their ears. And such are those among us that turn lands into laces, great rents into great ruffs, &c. The expenses of Apicus' kitchen amounted to more than two millions of gold. b He having eaten up his estate, and finding by his account that he had no more than 200,000 crowns remaining, thought himself poor, and that this sufficed not to maintain his luxury; whereupon he drank down a glass of poison.
a ασωτος quasi ασωστος, unsavable.
b H. S. millies in culinam coniecisset. Seneca, Moral Essays, l. 12. c. 10. (8-10) 2:453