The Anatomy of Tobacco
so called ὑπο το͂υ ἴέναι πάντα τὸν σῦν, because they go the whole hog.[1] And their doctrine is this:—The term "pipe" doth comprise every part which any given pipe possesses, whether it be differentia, property, or accident. And a pipe which, whether by reason of its mouthpiece, lid, colour, or joint in its bowl, stem, or mouthpiece, hath in it more than one kind of matter, cannot be simple. For they define the term simple as denoting an absolute unity of matter, and allege that as amber both true and false, ivory both true and false, bone and every manner of composition (as to mouthpiece), gold, silver, and base metal (with regard to lids); red, blue, and yellow (with regard to colour, since colour cannot exist on a pipe without the agency of that material substance called paint);—are all certainly matter; therefore they aver that if to Z + A (by which symbol
- ↑ This is the interpretation of the Pseudo-Smithus and Johannes de Grotibus, but Jacobulus Corvinus insists that it should be rendered the "complete swine," to whom Gulielmus Septemhorologiensis objects that the real meaning is rather "the entire animal."
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