Note 88 — ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE FOURTH.
Thomas Taylor translation
In the original, και δηλον ως τοιαυτῃ πολιτειᾳ οικειον, το της αποχης της παντελους, ταις δε διεφθαρμεναις, το της βρωσεως. But the latter part of this sentence is evidently defective, though the defect is not noticed either by Valentinus, or Reiske, or Rhoer. It appears therefore to me, that της τρυφης is wanting; so that for το της βρωσεως, we should read το της τρυφης της βρωσεως. And my conjecture is justified by the version of Felicianus, which is, “Huic autem abstinentiam, cæteris luxuriam victus fuisse peculiarem perspicuum est.”