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Meli
Adler number: mu,499
Translated headword: honey
Vetting Status: high
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:Meli: touto gluku men esti tên aisthêsin, pikron de tên anadosin: cholês gar auto phasi poiêtikon einai kai trepein tous chumous eis tounantion tês geuseôs: ho dê kai mallon tês ek phuseôs autou pikrotêtos katêgorei tên genesin.
Note:
[1] Julian,
Epistle 180 (p. 230 Bidez). For digestive problems involving honey, cf.
alpha 836.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 December 2003@17:48:33.
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