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the tests to be applied. A city that lies exposed
to the hot winds--these are those between the winter
rising of the sun and its winter setting--when
subject to these and sheltered from the north winds,
the waters here are plentiful and brackish, and must
be near the surface, |
μετέωρος2 "elevated," both here and in Chapter XXIV,
seems, when applied to springs, to mean the opposite of
"Deep," i. e. rising from a point near the surface of the soil.
Contrast Chapter VII, where water ἐκ βαθυτάτων πηγέων is
said to be warm in winter and cool in summer. |
hot in summer and cold in winter.
The heads of the inhabitants are moist and full of
phlegm, and their digestive organs are frequently
deranged from the phlegm that runs down into them
from the head. Most of them have a rather flabby
physique, and they are poor eaters and poor drinkers.
For men with weak heads will be poor drinkers, as
the after-effects are more distressing to them. The
endemic diseases are these. In the first place,
the women are unhealthy and subject to excessive
fluxes. Then many are barren through disease and
not by nature, while abortions are frequent. Children
are liable to convulsions and asthma, and to what
they think causes the disease of childhood, and to
be a sacred disease.| That is, epilepsy. Coray's reading means, "that
affection which they think is caused by Heaven, and to be
sacred." |
Men suffer from dysentery,
diarrhoea, ague, chronic fevers in winter, many
attacks of eczema, and from hemorrhoids. Cases
of pleurisy, pneumonia, ardent fever, and of diseases
considered acute, rarely occur. These diseases
cannot prevail where the bowels are loose. Inflammations
of the eyes occur with running, but are not
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