Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 5.22 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted

Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 5.22 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch; served verbatim

OF WHAT ELEMENTS EACH OF THE MEMBERS OF US MEN IS COMPOSED. Empedocles says, that the fleshy parts of us are constituted bythe contemperation of the four elements in us ; earth and fire mixed with a double proportion of water make the nerves ; but when it happens that the nerves are refrigerated where they meet the air, then the nails are made ; the bones are produced by two parts of water and the same of air, with four parts of fire and the same of earth, duly mixed together ; sweat and tears flow from the liquefaction of these bodies of ours.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch — translated by John Dowel (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
Apparatus shelf + pinned Perseus TEI — Plutarch's Morals (the Moralia), ed. William W. Goodwin, five volumes · 'Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin, Ph. D.', with an introduction by R. W. Emerson; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874 (five volumes; a minority of the TEI transcriptions were keyed from the same publisher's 1878 reprint)
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