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[5] Verba super hac re Aristotelis philosophi adscripsi, ut vel auctoritas clari atque incluti viri tam infamibus nos voluptatibus deterreret: διὰ τί οἱ κατὰ τὴν τῆς ἁφῆς ἢ γεύσεως ἡδονὴν 1 γιγνομένην, ἂν ὑπερβάλλωσιν, ἀκρατεῖς λέγονται; οἵ τε γὰρ περὶ τὰ ἀφροδίσια ἀκόλαστοι τοιοῦτοι, 2 οἵ τε περὶ τὰς τῆς τροφῆς ἀπολαύσεις: τῶν δὲ κατὰ τὴν τροφήν, ἀπ᾽ ἐνίων μὲν ἐν τῇ γλώττῃ τὸ ἡδύ, ἀπ᾽ ἐνίων δὲ ἐν τῷ λάρυγγι, διὸ καὶ φιλόξενος γεράνου λάρυγγα 3 εὔχετο ἔχειν: ἢ διὰ τὸ τὰς ἀπὸ τούτων γιγνομένας ἡδονὰς κοινὰς εἶναι ἡμῖν καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ζώοις; ἅτε 4 οὐσῶν κοινῶν, 5 ἀτιμόταταί εἰσι καὶ μάλιστα ἢ μόναι ἐπονείδιστοι, ὡς τὸν 6 ὑπὸ τούτων ἡττώ- [p. 358] μενον ψέγομεν καὶ ἀκρατῆ καὶ ἀκόλαστον λέγομεν διὰ τὸ ὑπὸ τῶν χειρίστων ἡδονῶν ἡττᾶσθαι. οὐσῶν δὲ τῶν αἰσθήσεων πέντε, τὰ ἄλλα ζῶα ἀπὸ τῶν δύο μόνων τῶν προειρημένων ἥδεται, κατὰ δὲ τὰς ἄλλας ἢ ὅλως οὐχ ἥδεται ἢ κατὰ συμβεβηκὸς τοῦτο πάσχει.

1 ἡδονήν, οὗ ἄν, Arist.

2 τοιοῦτοι omitted by MSS. of Arist.

3 φάρυγγα, Arist.

4 ἅτε οὖν, Arist.

5 οὖσαι κοιναί, many MSS. of Arist.

6 ὥστε τόν, Arist.

The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1927.

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