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[p. 118] conversus, 'interim,' inquit, 'dum ego atque hic disputamus, tu hoc age.' [10] Summa autem totius sententiae Tauri haec fuit: Non idem esse existimavit ἀοργησίαν et ἀναλγησίαν aliudque esse non iracundum animum, aliud ἀνάλγητον et ἀναίσθητον, id est hebetem et stupentem. [11] Nam sicut aliorum omnium, quos Latini philosophi “affectus” vel “affectiones,” Graeci πάθη appellant, ita huius quoque motus animi, qui cum est ulciscendi causa saevior “ira” dicitur, non privationem esse utilem censuit, quam Graeci στέρησιν dicunt, sed mediocritatem, quam μετριότητα illi appellant.
The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1927.
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