Book 10
1.53
Again, we must believe that smelling,Cf. Lucr. iv. 673-705, ii. 414-417. Neither taste nor touch is treated separately in this epistle. like hearing, would produce no sensation, were there not particles conveyed from the object which are of the proper sort for exciting the organ of smelling, some of one sort, some of another, some exciting it confusedly and strangely, others quietly and agreeably.
