Note DS — Seventh Book
Ernest Brehaut translation
P. 169, l. 30. Nimia excesus abstinentia. The translation of these words is difficult. Excesus may be taken as excisus (ex, caedere). Caedere is frequently used in Gregory’s writings in the sense of flog. The compound however does not appear to be found elsewhere in Gregory, and Bonnet, p. 422, note 1, suggests for excesus, exesus (devoured, consumed), which however does not give a plausible meaning.