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“[p. 516] vocant κιρρόν, 1 et novum, vetus, medium? Et efficere nigrum virus, album urinam, medium πέψιν̣ Novum refrigerare, vetus calefacere, medium esse prandium caninum?” [15] Quid significet prandium caninum, rem leviculam, diu et anxie quaesivimus. [16] Prandium autem abstemium, in quo nihil potatur, “caninum” dicitur, quoniam canis vino caret. [17] Cum igitur “medium vinum” appellasset, quod neque novum esset neque vetus—et plerumque homines ita loquantur, ut omne vinum aut novum esse dicant aut vetus —nullam vim habere significavit neque novi neque veteris quod medium esset, et idcirco pro vino non habendum, quia neque refrigeraret neque calefaceret. “Refrigerare” id dicit quod Graece ῾ψύχειν᾽ dicitur.
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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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