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Headword:
*me/li
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:*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.
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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