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My preference is Inwood and Gerson, particularly “The feeling of pain does not linger continuously in the flesh; rather, the sharpest is present for the shortest time...." Somehow that seems to be a subtly better description than the other translations. There doesn't seem to be any reference to motion or homeostasis in the Greek, but to me that's a key part of what this PD is discussing. Sensations and feelings are always changing. When pain stops for a while, the pleasure is great: kind of like…