1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Job 34:3 | *For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the taste. Job 12:11. | Taste. The most accurate philosophers attribute this faculty to the tongue, (Calmet) rather than to the throat, guttur. Hebrew, "mouth or palate." (Haydock) --- But Eliu speaks agreeably to the notions of the vulgar. (Calmet) --- Intellectus saporum caeteris est in prima lingua, homini et in palato. (Pliny, [Natural History?] 11:37.) |