INDULGE Copy link • INDULGEPROPR., indulgere (alicui or alicui rei): indulgentia tractare aliquem (to treat anybody with indulgence). To indulge anybody very much, magna esse in aliquem indulgentia: one’s self too much, nimis sibi indulgere; his soldiers too much, laxiore imperio milites habere. To give way to (passions), indulgere (e.g., irae, Liv.): alicui rei se dare, dedere, or tradere: dare animum alicui rei (e.g., maerori, to indulge his grief): non cohibere (not to restrain; e.g., se; effrenatas suas libidines, Cic.): to indulge one’s (lustful) passions, libidinibus se dare; one’s sensual appetites, voluptatibus servire, se tradere; corporis voluptatibus (totum) se dedere; one’s appetite, ventri obedire (to be the slave of one’s belly). Absolutely. To indulge in anything, indulgere alicui rei; in eating and drinking, cibo se vinoque invitare (on a particular occasion): bene curare aetatem suam (to make one’s self comfortable; Plaut., Pseud., 4, 7, 34): bene curare cutem (litterally, to make one’s self sleek by good eating and drinking, Hor., Ep., 1, 4, 15): ☞ not genio indulgere.