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So also the difference between them is not less manifest in their words than in their actions. These are, for instance, the sayings of intemperate persons: What pleasure can there be, what joy, without The golden Aphrodite? May I die When things like these no longer comfort me.Mimnermus, Frag. 1, vv. 1-2 (ed. Bergk and ed. Diehl); Edmonds, Elegy and Iambic, i. p. 89. And another says, To eat, to drink, to have one’s way in loveAlexis, Frag. 271 ed. Kock, vv. 4-5; the whole fragment is quoted in Moralia, 21 d.: All other things I call accessory, as though with all his soul he were acquiescing in pleasures and were being subverted thereby. Not less than these does heKock, Com. Att. Frag., iii. p. 450, ades. 217. who says Leave me to die, for that is best for me, have his judgement suffering with the same ailment as his passions.
