Book 1
Κεφ. ε. περὶ Παροξυσμοῦ Ἐπιληπτικῶν.
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ἀμβλύτητες , ἴλιγγοι, τενόντων βάρεα, φλεβῶν ἐν τῷ τραχήλῳ πληρώσιες καὶ διατάσιες, ναυτία τε πολλὴ μὲν ἐπὶ σιτίοις, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ καὶ ἐπʼ ἀσιτίῃσι καὶ βληχρή· In all the former editions, instead of τε πολλὴ, we read τὰ πολλὰ and, with the exception of that of Dr. Ermerins, all have καὶ before βληχρή. The Latin translation of this clause by Wigan, Kuhn, and Ermerins, is this: nausea præcipué quidem post cibum, sed quæ per abstinentiam quoque lenté continuat, which is evidently very loose and vague. That of Crassus is far more strict and accurate: nausea frequentius quidem e cibis, non minimé tamen et ab inedia pusilla quædam nausea sequitur. The English translation of the text as it formerly stood would run thus: nausea for the most part, indeed, after food; but also, not unfrequently, slight nausea after abstinence. It appears to me, however, that the meaning is so much improved by the slight change I have ventured to make, that I flatter myself no argument is required to prove it to be the true reading. The contrast between πολλὴ in the one case, and βληχρὴ in the other, is most suitable to the sense. That the repetition of καὶ is legitimate in this clause of the sentence, will not be questioned by any one who is familiar with the style of Galen. See, for example, De Locis Affectis, v.i., prope initium; t. iii p. 296, ed. Basil. καὶ φλέγμα ἐμεῖται συχνόν· ἀποσιτίη καὶ ἀπεψίη ἐπὶ σμικροῖσι ἐδέσμασι· φυσώδεες, ἐπηρμένοι ὑποχόνδρια. τάδε μὲν οὖν διηνεκέα.
