As a text not yet mentioned see the chapter "De passione Domini" in the
_Legenda aurea_ (having only a translation at hand I cannot give the
precise number in Graesse's edition): it lists five aspects or reasons of
his sufferings (1. humiliation, 2. injustice, 3. being harmed by his kin,
4. delicacy of his body, 5. affliction of all the parts and senses of his
body), and explains under #5 in some detail how all five bodily senses were
afflicted: his eyes cried, his ears had to suffer calumniation and
blasphemy, his nose had to smell the stench of the dead bodies at Calvaria,
his tongue was tortured with vinegar and gall, and he suffered painful
touches with all parts of his body. The chapter also quotes a long passage
from Bernard (or Pseudo-Bernard?) with a slightly different enumeration of
the sufferings of the bodily parts and five senses.
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