The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius volume 3
The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius volume 3
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After the third or fourth day, they appear for the moft part dull and droxvfy, their breath becomes in a high degree offenfive, of the belly, and the cavity of the ftomach, caufe hunger, which, either being filled with food, or contracted by continued privation, the longing defire and craving for food is extinguifhed. ' The fame Erafiftratus cbferves too, " fays he, " that the Scythians, when occafion required, in order to endure hunger longer than ufual, applied a very tight bandage round the ...belly; and they thought that by this compreffion of the belly hunger was prevented. '* Thefe and other obfervations Favo- rinus, with the greateft affability, communicated. And when, fome time after, I read Erafiftratus's firft book of Diftinctions, I met with the paffage which I had heard Favorinus quote. His words upon the fubject are thefe: " I fuppofed, there- fore, from the violent contraction of the belly, a great abflinence from food had taken place ; for generally, to thofe who abftain by choice from food, at firft hunger arifes, but after a time it ceafes.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
After the third or fourth day, they appear for the moft part dull and droxvfy, their breath becomes in a high degree offenfive, of the belly, and the cavity of the ftomach, caufe hunger, which, either being filled with food, or contracted by continued privation, the longing defire and craving for food is extinguifhed. ' The fame Erafiftratus cbferves too, " fays he, " that the Scythians, when occafion required, in order to endure hunger longer than ufual, applied a very tight bandage round the ...belly; and they thought that by this compreffion of the belly hunger was prevented. '* Thefe and other obfervations Favo- rinus, with the greateft affability, communicated. And when, fome time after, I read Erafiftratus's firft book of Diftinctions, I met with the paffage which I had heard Favorinus quote. His words upon the fubject are thefe: " I fuppofed, there- fore, from the violent contraction of the belly, a great abflinence from food had taken place ; for generally, to thofe who abftain by choice from food, at firft hunger arifes, but after a time it ceafes.
What to read after The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius volume 3?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Aulus Gellius to read onlineMoreLess
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