The bath as a definition. A textbook instance of the EXERCISEphysical definition: what does bathing "appear" (φαίνεται) to be if one looks at its matter and not its pleasantness? "Oil, sweat, dirt, slimy water" (ἔλαιον, ἱδρώς, ῥύπος, ὕδωρ γλοιῶδες) — "all things that disgust" (σικχαντά). The analysis strips away the aesthetic gloss: what sense presents as the pleasure of the bath, reason sees as a mixture of refuse.

The generalization — to everything. The point of the passage is in the coda: "such is every part of life and every object" (πᾶν μέρος τοῦ βίου καὶ πᾶν ὑποκείμενον). The device lies not in a revulsion at the bath but in the method: any ὑποκείμενον (the subject, the object of an impression) yields to the same bare analysis — wine as fermented juice, purple as wool stained with slime (06-13), fame as another's noise (8.21). The aim is not to loathe life but to disarm the seductive appearance, returning the thing to its value-free composition. There are no term-lemmata in the text. The governing discipline is assent (to break the spell of the impression), the sustaining one desire (to strip the "pleasant" of its value).