Acrates
Acrates, Incontinence personified in The Purple Island, by Phineas Fletcher. He had two sons (twins) by Caro, viz. Methos (drunkenness) and Gluttony, both fully described in canto vii. (Greek, akrates, "incontinent.")
Acrates, Incontinence personified in The Faërie Queene, by Spenser. he is the father of Cymochles and Pyrochles. -- Bk. ii. 4 (1590).
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Acrates: the personification of Incontinence and the father of Gluttony and Drunkenness.
--Phineas Fletcher, Purple Island.
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