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[546] ἀπό, Zen. “διά” (and so presumably in 548), which might seem preferable were the text not sufficiently defended by “ἀπαμήσειε” (or “ἀποτμήξειε”), 18.34. φλέβα: it is hardly necessary to say that no ‘vein’ running up the back to the neck is known to modern anatomists. Hippokrates, however, appears to have held the view that there were four pairs of large veins, of which the first started from the neck and ran along both sides of the spine down to the loins (Buchholz H. R. i. 2. 85: ii. 2. 242). The ancients were not aware that the arteries contained blood; so that the reference is probably not to the carotid arteries, as we might suppose, but to the jugular veins. The word “φλέψ” does not recur in H.

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