THEOPHRASTUS 



'H Be tca9o\ov KOI wcTTrep 7rl rraai T09 Bia- 

 <f>0eip0fjbevois a airports, arrav yap TO a-^rco^evov 

 tcatcwBes, el firf Tt9 rrjv o^vrrjra \eyei, rov OLVOV 

 3 o-airpoTijTa rfj O/JLOLOTIJTI r% (frflopas. ev arracn 

 ' ecrrlv rj rov aaTrpov KaK(0$ia /cal ev <f>VTois 

 /col ev foiof? teal ev rot? atyv^oiS' ev arraai Be 

 &ia(j)@ipofjievoi<; wv /jurj 77 avarao-^ ev0i)s etc 

 \r)$' e^ei yap evia teal rr]V rrjs y\7j^ 

 ov n/r)V eirl irdvTwv ye TOUT* aico\ov6el. 



V^P V KCLKCtiBrj TO, K TO)V (Ta7Tp)V, O>9 



ouS' ol /jiv/cyres ol etc r^9 KOTrpov (^vo^evoi' ra 8' 



etc 7?^eft)9 (fivofjieva fcal avviarrd/jieva 



evoa/jia fjiev ovv o>9 a7rXw9 elirelv ra 



KOI \errra teal rjKLcrra yewSiy TO yap T7/9 



ev dvaTTVofj' KatcwSij Be 8rj\ovori, rdvavria. 7ro\\a 



Be tovrrep rwv y\v/cea)v e^aivei nva Tri/cporrjTa, 



teal rwv eva)B(ov (Bapvr^ra rais oafjial^. 



II. "E%et Be etcaarrov ocr^v IBiav teal 

 teal (f)vr(t)i> teal rwv d-^v^cov oaa ocr/>tft)5>?' 



1 And so here we have a term which possibly is applied 

 only to the one class of ' evil ' odours. 



2 Which is not an 'evil' odour. 



3 i.e. putridity is a quality which things acquire as they 

 decay, and does not necessarily imply that they are them- 

 selves formed out of decaying matter. In fact things so 

 produced are not always ' putrid.' 



4 The sense is apparently that ' lighter ' (or less solid) 

 things exhale a lighter and pleasanter odour because in their 



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