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cordance with these examples : Epicurus (but we need not 

 wonder at him) was wont to enunciate ia a loud voicCj 

 fieyaXr] <p(ovy, and even to bawl forth^ ^ocov Xeyeiv, as what 

 aU must admit — that a man amerced of the pleasures 

 of tongue as connected with taste, was hardly to be con- 

 ceived capable of enjoyment ; and to the same purpose, 

 that the stomach was the source and tap-root (a/o^ij koI 

 pi^rj) of all the delights of life. One prayed that in his 

 grief, which always took a hungry turn, he might never 

 be without a good supper at hand to appease it ;* whilst 

 another of the same stye wished to die of repletion burst- 

 ing with food.f Others again, greedy after some par- 

 ticular friandise (as Archesilaus after his grapes) were 

 used to speculate, with Cicero, what, or if any pleasures 

 could remain to a man who had lost the enjoyments of 

 his palate. Sophocles puts a nearly similar sentiment 

 into the mouth of one of his dramatic angels, who holds 

 that an effete bon vivant is no longer a man, but only 

 {efi'\lrvy(pv vsKpov) a living corpse. Several of the stories 

 quoted in Athenseus profess the same views as Epicurus; 

 and though the Cynics affected to snarl at this, as at 

 other human weaknesses, it was only to vitiate the pro- 

 verb which holds good of quadruped curs, and to bite 

 not less furiously than they barked. 'Put a glaucus' 

 head before any of these sages who stalk past with high- 



'AX\' e'/ic fi£v bofmrjaai iacrare Krjhojievov Trep. 

 'Qs Koi iya> irevdos jiiv ex" ^/JfCiV' fj^ 8e fioK' aUl 

 e(rdefi£Vai ksXctoi koX irivifiev, ck Se /le irdvToji/, 

 XrjSdvet 6(rtT eiradov, koX eviTrKrjo-drjvai dvayyet. 



iv Tols yafioiiTiv, auSpes evii>-)(r)iropMi,, 

 dXK ort dutppayfjirofi , dv Oebs BeXrf 

 TOVTOV 8e p,0L yevoiTo rov Bavdrov Tv^eXv, 



' (So. yatrrrjp.) 



