Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.14.52

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[52] καὶ τὰ γευστὰ ὁμοίως τῶν μὲν τραχεῖαν καὶ ἄνικμον ἐχόντων τὴν γλῶσσαν τῶν δὲ ἔνυγρον σφόδρα, εἴγε καὶ ἡμεῖς ξηροτέραν ἐν πυρετοῖς τὴν γλῶτταν σχόντες γεώδη καὶ κακόχυμα ἢ πικρὰ τὰ προσφερόμενα εἶναι νομίζομεν, τοῦτο δὲ πάσχομεν καὶ παρὰ
τὴν διάφορον ἐπικράτειαν τῶν ἐν ἡμῖν χυμῶν εἶναι λεγομέων· μένων· ἐπεὶ οὖν καὶ τὰ ζῷα διάφορον τὸ γευστικὸν αἰσθητήριον ἔχει καὶ διαφόροις χυμοῖς πλεονάζον, διαφόρους ἂν
καὶ κατὰ τὴν γεῦσιν φαντασίας τῶν ὑποκειμένων λαμβάνοι.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. ed. Hermann Mutschmann. Germany. 2014.

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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes (Greek) (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.)

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 1.14.52 focus

[52] So too with the objects of taste; for some animals have rough and dry tongues, others extremely moist tongues. We ourselves, too, when our tongues are very dry, in cases of fever, think the food proffered us to be earthy and ill-flavoured or bitter—an affection due to the variation in the predominating juices which we are said to contain. Since, then, animals also have organs of taste which differ and which have different juices in excess, in respect of taste also they will receive different impressions of the real objects.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.14.52

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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