To this of Epicurus we might join an argument taken from physic.

At day-time, while our digestion is performing, we are not so lusty nor eager to embrace; and presently after supper to endeavor it is dangerous, for the crudity of the stomach, the food being yet undigested, may be disorderly motion upon this crudity, and so the mischief be double.

Olympicus, continuing the discourse, said: I very much like what Clinias the Pythagorean delivers.

For the story goes that, being asked when a man should lie with a woman, he replied, when he hath a mind to receive the greatest mischief that he can.

For Zopyrus's discourse seems rational, and other times as well as those he mentions have their peculiar inconveniences.