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παιδίοισι δὲ, οὐκ ἄηθες πάγχυ·
οὐ πάντη δὲ ἀσφαλές.
Κεφ. ισ'.
Περὶ Καχεξίης. Ξυμπάντων
ὁμοῦ παθέων καχεξίη τροπή. ἅπασαι γὰρ αἱ νοῦσοι τῆσδε
ἀποτόκοι. ἀτὰρ καὶ ἥδε μούνη ἄνευθεν τῶν ἄλλων,
φαρμάκων ἐπίδοσιν ἔχουσα πολλὴν,
ἰλυώδεα κατὰ πρώτιστα γίγνεται πάθος. |
It appears to me most
remarkable, that all the editors should have pronounced this passage thoroughly corrupt,
and in particular that Ermerins should have gone the length of ejecting the greater part of
the last clause altogether from the text. He reads thus: ἀτὰρ καὶ ἥδε
μούνη ἄνευθεν τῶν ἄλλων κατὰ πρώτιστα γίγνεται πάθος. This is truly an heroical
way of solving the Gordian knot! I flatter myself I have unravelled all the intricacies of the
noose by a much more lenient process; namely, by merely shifting the accent of
A)PO/TOKOI to the penult syllable, as suggested by Petit, and placing
the comma [,] before ἰλυώδεα, instead of after it, as it
stood in the former editions, and putting a comma after
ἄλλων, for which I have the authority of wigan. I do not hesitate to
affirm, that φαρμάκων and the other words connected
with it are indispensable to the full signification of the passage, as any one may be
convinced who will compare the account of Cachexia given by other authors. Thus, among
the causes of Cachexia enumerated by Cælius Aurelianus, we find "item ex medicaminibus
sæpissime potatis"--and "curatione mala medicantis." Tard. Pass. iii. 6. And much in the
same style Celsus, treating of Cachexia, says: "Quod fere fit, cum longo morbo vitiata
corpora, etiamsi illo vacant, refectionem tamen non recipiunt; aut cum malis medicamentis
corpus affectum est." iii. 22.
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καὶ ἕξις μὲν κακὴ σχέδιος ξυνὴ
πάντων, καὶ ξυμπτώματα πολλὰ,
καὶ οὔνομα τόδε ξύμβολον· ἰσχνότης δὲ ἢ ὦχρος ἢ οἷδος καὶ εἴ τι ἕτερον πρόσκαιρον
ἀνὰ τὸ σῶμα· καχεξίη δὲ ἑνὸς μεγάλου πάθεος ἰδέη, καὶ
τοῦδε τοὔνομα · ἡ γὰρ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐς τὰ πάντα εὐεξίη, καὶ ἡ
ἐς πέψιν ἢ ἐς ἀνάδοσιν αἵματος γέννα· ἠδὲ πᾶν ἔργον φύσιος,
ἐφ' οἷσι εὔπνοια, εὐτονίη,
εὐχροίη, τὸ πρόσθεν
ὑγείη. ἢν δὲ ἐς ἀσθενίην κακοχυμίης ἡ φύσις
τραπῇ, τόδε ἐστὶν ἡ καχεξίη.
Ἡ νοῦσος ἥδε δυσαλθὴς, ἠδὲ μήκιστον
κακόν. καὶ γὰρ
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