Gorgias

Cookery, then, I maintain to be a flattery which takes the form of medicine; and tiring, in like manner, is a flattery which takes the form of gymnastic, and is knavish, false, ignoble, illiberal, working deceitfully by the help of lines, and colours, and enamels, and garments, and making men affect a spurious beauty to the neglect of the true beauty which is given by gymnastic (465). In the opening of this phrase Socrates compares the significance of a cook or cookery to a doctor and his/her knowledge of nutrition and medicine.

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