t on scent—smeared with ointments and garlanded with flowers; she has told them to taste honeyed and Bacchic drafts; she has ordered the eyes to thirst after gold and gems and everything else that is beautiful; she has opened the ears of animate beings to all the sounds of harmonic modulation, which the Greeks call ‘symphonies’; finally, lest any part of the body should not serve pleasure, she has covered the whole surface of the body with the enticements of touch. ("Philocosmia, on the senses," in Adelard, De eodem et diverso, ed. Willner, Munster i. W, 1903, 9)
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