Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, 3.5.1

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[1] 15 οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν περὶ τῶν γυναικῶν ἔφη¹ καὶ πρὸς τοὐναντίον ἀνδρικῶς ἐπικεχείρηται². τὸν δʼ οἶνον ἐπιθυμῶ μαθεῖν³, ὁπόθεν ὑπόνοιαν 652a ἡμῖν τοῦ⁴ ψυχρὸς εἶναι παρέσχεν οἴει γάρ ἔφην ἐγὼ τοῦτον ἡμέτερον εἶναι τὸν λόγον; ἀλλὰ τίνος εἶπεν ἑτέρου; μέμνημαι μὲν οὖν ἔφην ἐγὼ καὶ 5 Ἀριστοτέλους ἐντυχὼν οὐ νεωστὶ λόγῳ⁵ περὶ τούτου τοῦ προβλήματος ἀλλʼ ἱκανῶς πάλαι. διείλεκται δὲ καὶ Ἐπίκουρος ἐν τῷ Συμποσίῳ⁶ πολλοὺς λόγους, ὧν τὸ κεφάλαιόν ἐστιν ὡς ἐγᾦμαι τοιόνδε. φησὶ γὰρ οὐκ εἶναι θερμὸν αὐτοτελῶς τὸν οἶνον, ἀλλʼ 10 ἔχειν τινὰς ἀτόμους ἐν αὑτῷ θερμασίας ἀποτελεστικὰς ἑτέρας δʼ αὖ ψυχρότητος· ὧν τὰς μὲν ἀποβάλλειν, ὅταν εἰς τὸ σῶμα παραγένηται, τὰς δὲ 652b προσλαμβάνειν ἐκ τοῦ σώματος, ὡς ἂν⁷ ἔχωσι κράσεως ἡμῖν ἢ φύσεως ὁμιλῆσαι, ὡς τοὺς μὲν ἐκθερμαίνεσθαι 15 τοὺς δὲ τοὐναντίον πάσχειν μεθυσκομένους.

Quaestiones Convivales. Plutarch. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Leipzig. 1892.

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Συμποσιακῶν προβλημάτων βιβλία (Greek) (Plutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol. IV. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1892.)

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Symposiacs Perseus (Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. III. Goodwin, William W., editor; Creech, Thomas, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.) — 3.5.1 focus

[1] BUT now I would fain know upon what account you can imagine that wine is cold. Then, said I, do you believe this to be my opinion? Yes, said he, whose else? And I replied: I remember a good while ago I met with a discourse of Aristotle’s upon this very question. And Epicurus, in his Banquet, hath a long discourse, the sum of which is that wine of itself is not hot, but that it contains some atoms that cause heat, and others that cause cold; now, when it is taken into the body, it loses one sort of particles and takes the other out of the body itself, according to the person’s nature and constitution; so that some when they are drunk are very hot, and others very cold.

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Συμποσιακῶν προβλημάτων βιβλία

1. ἔφη X: ἔφην

2. οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ - ἐπικεχείρηται] haec ex fine superioris quaestionis in huius principio collocavit W

3. μαθεῖν] μαθεῖν 11 E solus

4. τοῦ] τὸ mei

5. λόγῳ Basileensis: λόγου

6. Ἐπίκουρος ἐν τῷ Συμποσίῳ] vid. Usener. p. 116

7. καὶ ὡς ἂν scripsit Usenerus cum Hutteno et deinde ἔχουσι cum aliis, quae ego non intellego. Ut locus fertur subiectum ἔχωσι verbi est αἱ ἄτομοι

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