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ψυχῆς κατάστασις ,There has been much difference of opinion respecting these two words. I regard the construction as an Attic anacoluthon, of which many examples occur in our author's works, and in those of aelian and Arrian, who were about his age. Ermerins mentions that Kün was disposed to regard them as belonging to the Glossema. This, I know, was suggested to him by the late Dr. Kerr, of Aberdeen, whose correspondence with Kün I saw at the time it took place, about thirty years ago. αἴσθησις σύμπασα καθαρὴ, διάνοια λεπτὴ, γνώμη μαντική. προγιγνώσκουσι μὲν οὖν πρώτιστα μὲν ὡυτέοισι τοῦ βίου τὴν μεταλλαγήν· ἔπειτα τοῖσι παρεοῦσι προλέγουσι τὰ αὖθις ἐσόμενα· οἱ δὲ αὐτέους μὲν ἔσθʼ ὅτε καὶ ἀλλοφάσσειν This conjectural emendation of Petit, which is adopted by Ermerins and Wigan, is an ingenious substitute for the common reading, ἄλλο φασὶ, which evidently has no meaning. A still more simple emendation, however, would be, ἄλλο φάσθαι — that is to say, the spectators fancy that they speak strange, i.e. incoherent. See Liddel and Scott's Lexicon under ἄλλος, for this meaning of the word. δοκέουσι· τῇ ἀποβάσι δὲ τῶν εἰρημένων θωϋμάζουσι ὥνθρωποι. μετεξέτεροι δὲ καὶ προσλαλέουσι τῶν κατοιχομένων τισὶ, τάχα μὲν παρεόντας ὁρεῦντες αὐτοὶ μοῦνοι, ὑπὸ λεπτῆς καὶ καθαρῆς αἰσθήσιος, τάχα δʼ αὐτῶν τῆς ψυχῆς προγγινωσκούσης, καὶ διηγευμένης τοὺς ἄνδρας οἷσι ξυνέσονται. πρόσθεν μὲν γὰρ ἐν τοῖσι ὑγροῖσι ὡς ἐν ἰλύϊ ἔνην καὶ ζόφῳ.Ermerins does not hesitate to expunge the word ὑγροῖσιν altogether; but this seems to me an unwarrantable liberty. By the addition of one short word, ὡς, and a little transposition, I flatter myself that I have greatly improved the text. Petit proposes to read ἰλυώδεσι ὑγροῖσι, but without referring to any medical authority for such an expression. In illustration of the general meaning of this sentence, see an important passage on the πνευμα, below. Therap. I. i. ἐπεὶ δὲ τάδε ἐξήντλησε ἡ νοῦσος, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὴν ἀχλὺνἕλε, ὁρέουσι τά τε ἐν τῷ ἠέρι, καὶ γυμνῇ τῇ ψυχῇ γίγνονται μάντιες ἀτρεκέες· οἱ δὲ ἐς τοσόνδε λεπτότητος ὑγρῶν καὶ τῆς γνώμης ἀφιγμένοι οὐ μάλα τοι περιγίγνονται, ἐξηερωμ ένης ἤδη τῆς ζωτικῆς δυνάμιος.
