And therefore Calliphon and Dinomachus, in my judgment, deserve the greater condemnation; they imagined that they should settle the controversy by coupling pleasure with moral rectitude; as well yoke a man with a beast!
Cicero criticizes the philosophers Calliphon and Dinomachus for attempting to combine pleasure with moral rectitude, deeming such a union unnatural.
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