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Aurora
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (41)
The saltish quality is a good temperature [or temper] in the bitter, the sweet and the sour, making every thing pleasant; it opposeth the rising of the bitter quality, as also of the sweet and the sour, lest they should be inflamed: it is a sharp quality, a delight in the taste, a source of life and joy.
The Elements (65e)
Timaeus: are all termed “bitter”; while those which have a property less strong than the alkaline, being detergent in a moderate degree, seem to us...