Note 410 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
N. C. Apostolides, La Pêche en Grèce (Athènes, 1907), p. 31. The selection of Aristotle as the prototype of philosophical inveighers against Tobacco by Thomas Corneille (Act I., Sc. 1, of Le Festin de Pierre),
“Quoi qu’en dise Aristote, et sa digne cabale, Le tabac est divin, il n’est rien qui l’égale,”
is hardly happy, for, as the weed nicotine only reached Europe some nineteen centuries after the philosopher’s death, his “dise” equals rien!