[p. 118] δύεται, ἢν ὀσφραίνηται ἡ ὑστέρη θυμιήσι κακώδεϊ. ἕλκει δὲ αὐτέην καὶ ἡ γυνὴ, ἢν ὀσφραίνηται θυμιητῶν εὐωδέων. ἀτὰρ καὶ χερσὶ μαίης ἀτρέμα εἴσω θέει, ἡσυχῆ πιεζευμένη καὶ χριομένη πρόσθεν τοῖσι ὑστέρης μειλίγμασι.1
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[p. 118] δύεται, ἢν ὀσφραίνηται ἡ ὑστέρη θυμιήσι κακώδεϊ. ἕλκει δὲ αὐτέην καὶ ἡ γυνὴ, ἢν ὀσφραίνηται θυμιητῶν εὐωδέων. ἀτὰρ καὶ χερσὶ μαίης ἀτρέμα εἴσω θέει, ἡσυχῆ πιεζευμένη καὶ χριομένη πρόσθεν τοῖσι ὑστέρης μειλίγμασι.1
1 i am not aware that this word occurs elsewhere in any medical author, as applied here. I am persuaded, then, that the proper reading is μαλάγμασι. On the malagmata or emollient plasters of the ancients, see P aulus aegineta, Syd. Soc. Edit. b. iii. pp. 576 — 581. They were much used in uterine diseases. See Ibid ... iii ... 68, etc.
2 i have ventured to read ἢ instead of ἢν, on my own authority; and have substituted τινι in place of τι, on the authority of Ermerins; but have rejected his alteration of μὴν into μὴ, which I think spoils the passage; and have preferred μὲν, which has the authority of the Vatican ms.
3 Θρὶξ here is used in an unusual sense. The literal translation of the expression would be, “They are not pained a hair,” or “a hair's-breadth,” i.e. in the slightest degree. Ermerins refers to Theocritus, Idyll. xiv. 9, for an example of this usage. See further Liddel and Seott's Lexicon, under the word. This usage of it appears very forced in the present instance, and I suspect the reading to be corrupt.
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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