De tabe et phthisi pronunciata

It is a tempering. I think that such was the banquet of Agathon, which Socrates, Phaedrus, Pausanias, and Eryximachus held; such was that dinner which the most learned Callias, Carneades, Antisthenes, and Hermogenes prepared. Therefore, it is perhaps not without reason that the divine Hippocrates brought forth these words concerning the parts of the human body constantly communicating and dividing nourishment among themselves: xyrroia mia, xympnoia mia, sympatheia panta there is one flowing together, one breathing together, all things sympathize. It is permissible to translate and accommodate this to that conjunction of minds, sweeter than any harmony and concord, and to the mutual communication of duties. Hence you may see very many coming here as if to the most celebrated gymnasium of all Germany, who, about to receive the insignia of the supreme laurel, grasp the rewards of their virtue and erudition with great praise and applause, in the manner of those who, in the Olympic celebratory games once held near Elis and Pisa, used to bring back the elaias kallistephanō athlon the prize of the most beautiful crown of olives. But lest I seem to wish to bring light to the flickering rays of the sun, or (as is the custom to say in Greek) to tō hēliō phōs dianemein distribute light to the sun, I stop here and make an end, lest I overstep the limits of a letter.