Meaning of saporus | Babel Free

Definitions

savory, delicious

Late-Latin, adjective, declension-1, declension-2

Examples

“Et Seneca, Nondum sunt, inquit, mille anni, ex quo initia sapientiae mota sunt. Multis ergo saeculis humanum genus sine ratione vixit. Quod irridens Persius, Postquam, inquit, sapere Urbi / cum pipere et palmis venit, tamquam sapientia cum saporis mercibus fuerit invecta.”

And so Seneca says, It isn't yet a thousand years since the beginnings of wisdom. For many centuries, then, humanity (allegedly) lived without reason. Persius laughed at this saying: After taste (wisdom) came to the City with pepper and palm dates, as if wisdom had been brought in with savory merchandise.

“anima ... tota naribus odora, tota palato sapora, tota corpore sentit palpabilia”

The soul ... perceives all smells with the nose, all savory things with the palate, all that can be sensed by touch with the body.

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