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 1 4|    by lapse of time harsh or bitter, or acquire savours of any
 2 4|    filtered through ashes, a bitter substance, the taste they
 3 4|      the taste they yield is bitter. There are many wells, too,
 4 4|       too, of which some are bitter, others acid, while others
 5 4|   sweet], while the salt and bitter it rejects because of their
 6 4|     arise from the Sweet and Bitter; and these savours, too,
 7 4|    fairly identical with the Bitter. Between the extremes of
 8 4|    the extremes of sweet and bitter come the Harsh, the Pungent,
 9 4|    Translucent, so Saline or Bitter is a privation of Sweet
10 4|   ash of all burnt things is bitter; for the potable [sc. the
11 4|     to Black, and in Savours Bitter is contrary to Sweet; but
12 4|     which Democritus reduces Bitter] is the spherical figure [
13 5| fetid smells as analogous to bitter tastes; which explains why
14 6|    Black; in Savour, Sweet x Bitter, and in all the other sensibles
15 7|   former, discerns Sweet and Bitter; but while both these faculties
16 7|      so the former perceives Bitter.~Again, if the stimuli of
17 7|   Contraries, e.g. Sweet and Bitter, come under one and the
18 7|  with Sweet, and others with Bitter. Nor can one discern the