[p. 53] ξύλῳ: ναυτίη, ἔμετος χολωδέων, κατάπτωσις τοῦ ἀνθρώπου : ἢν δ᾽ ἐπιτείνῃ κοτὲ τὸ πάθος, ὥνθρωπος ἐτελεύτησε . ἢν δὲ σμικρότερονᾖ, καὶ ἐς ὄλεθρονἀσινὲς, χρονίζει, ὄκνος πουλὺς, καρηβαρίη, ἀπορίη, ζωὴ δύσφορος. καὶ γάρ πως φεύγουσι τὴν αὐγήν: σκότος δὲ πρηο̈́νει τουτέοισι τὴν νοῦσον: οὐ δὲ ἐσιδεῖν τι ἢ ἀκοῦσαι τερπνὸν εὔφοροι : κάκοδμοι τὴν ὄσφρησιν, καὶ οὔτε τι εὐῶδες αὐτέους τέρπει, ἐκτρέπονται δὲ καὶ τὰ κακώδεα : ἄχθονται τῷ βίῳ, θανατῶσι ὥνθρωποι. αἰτίη δὲ τουτέων ξὺν ξηρότητι ψύξις: ἢν δὲ δηθύνῃ καὶ ἐς μέζον ἕρπῃ ἐπὶ τοῖσι πόνοισι, τὸ πάθος σκότωμα γίγνεται.
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[p. 53] ξύλῳ: ναυτίη, ἔμετος χολωδέων, κατάπτωσις τοῦ ἀνθρώπου : ἢν δ᾽ ἐπιτείνῃ κοτὲ τὸ πάθος, ὥνθρωπος ἐτελεύτησε . ἢν δὲ σμικρότερονᾖ, καὶ ἐς ὄλεθρονἀσινὲς, χρονίζει, ὄκνος πουλὺς, καρηβαρίη, ἀπορίη, ζωὴ δύσφορος. καὶ γάρ πως φεύγουσι τὴν αὐγήν: σκότος δὲ πρηο̈́νει τουτέοισι τὴν νοῦσον: οὐ δὲ ἐσιδεῖν τι ἢ ἀκοῦσαι τερπνὸν εὔφοροι : κάκοδμοι τὴν ὄσφρησιν, καὶ οὔτε τι εὐῶδες αὐτέους τέρπει, ἐκτρέπονται δὲ καὶ τὰ κακώδεα : ἄχθονται τῷ βίῳ, θανατῶσι ὥνθρωποι. αἰτίη δὲ τουτέων ξὺν ξηρότητι ψύξις: ἢν δὲ δηθύνῃ καὶ ἐς μέζον ἕρπῃ ἐπὶ τοῖσι πόνοισι, τὸ πάθος σκότωμα γίγνεται.
1 This word can scarcely be the right reading; but it is difficult to find a proper substitute for it. Were I disposed to bold attempts at emendation, I should propose to substitute ἐμβρέμεται in place of it; for, considering how fond our author is of Homeric diction, nothing seems so natural as to suppose that he had in mind the celebrated passage in the Iliad, —
— — — ἀνέμοιο δὲ δεινὸς ἀήτης Ἱστίῳ ἐμβρέμεται (xv. 627). Wigan suggests ἐγκυρκανέῃ or ἐγκυκανέῃ; but these words are at least as objectionable as the one they are intended to supply a substitute for. In the ms. in the British Museum, we read εὐεργέινηΐ: and this, perhaps, is the true reading.
The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian. Aretaeus. Francis Adams LL.D. Boston. Milford House Inc. 1972 (Republication of the 1856 edition).
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