Μέλι
honey
Translated by Catharine Roth6 Dec 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
"This is sweet to sense-perception, but bitter for the digestion; for they say that it produces bile and turns the humors to the opposite of its taste -- which indeed, rather than the bitterness of its nature, proves its origin."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μέλι· τοῦτο γλυκὺ μέν ἐστι τὴν αἴσθησιν, πικρὸν δὲ τὴν ἀνάδοσιν· χολῆς γὰρ αὐτό φασι ποιητικὸν εἶναι καὶ τρέπειν τοὺς χυμοὺς εἰς τοὐναντίον τῆς γεύσεως· ὃ δὴ καὶ μᾶλλον τῆς ἐκ φύσεως αὐτοῦ πικρότητος κατηγορεῖ τὴν γένεσιν.
Betacode
*me/li: tou=to gluku\ me/n e)sti th\n ai)/sqhsin, pikro\n de\ th\n a)na/dosin: xolh=s ga\r au)to/ fasi poihtiko\n ei)=nai kai\ tre/pein tou\s xumou\s ei)s tou)nanti/on th=s geu/sews: o(\ dh\ kai\ ma=llon th=s e)k fu/sews au)tou= pikro/thtos kathgorei= th\n ge/nesin.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 17 May 2016
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetic — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth