Chapter IX: Book VI: The memory of a useful discourse gives pleasure long

afterwards, 338, 339. _Question_ 1. Why are those that are fasting
more inclined to drink than to eat? 339, 340. 2. Whether hunger
and thirst are caused by want of nourishment or by a change in the
pores or passages of the body, 341-344. 3. Why is hunger allayed
by drinking, but thirst increased by eating? 345, 346. 4. Why is a
bucket of water drawn out of a well, and left to stand all night in
the air that is in the well, colder next morning than the rest of
the water? 347, 348. 5. Why do pebble-stones and leaden bullets,
thrown into the water, make it more cold? 348, 349. 6. What is the
reason that snow is preserved by covering it with chaff and cloths?
350, 351. 7. Ought wine to be strained? 351-354. 8. What is the
cause of Bulimy, or the greedy disease? 355-358. 9. Why does Homer
appropriate to each particular liquid a special epithet, and use none
when speaking of oil? 359, 360. 10. Why is the flesh of sacrificed
animals, after being awhile upon a fig-tree, more tender than before?
361, 362.