Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian.
Francis Adams LL.D., Ed.

1 this reading, instead of the common one, τοῦ ἀφεχή, was first suggested by Petit.

2 The common reading is νέει, which Ermerins makes νέη, having adopted it from Bernard, ad Nonnum, i ... 52. It occurs also in Cod. Harley. But neither the one nor the other furnishes any meaning suitable to the place. To my mind, there can be no doubt that the proper reading is ζέει, which occurs in Alexander's description of inflammation of the liver, as follows: — Ὅτι μὲν ὥσπερ ἅπασα φλεγμονὴ ἐκ ζέοντος αἵματος ἔχει τὴν γένεσιν, οὕτω καὶ ἡ ἐν τῷ ἥπατι, κ. τ.λ. (vi. 19). The meaning, then, obviously is, that in inflammations of other parts, the blood, which is the pabulum of the inflammation, has to come from another place to the part inflamed; whereas in inflammations of the liver, the blood is inflamed in the place where it is originally formed.

3 the negative, οὐχ, is wanting in all the mss.; but, as Wigan remarks, it is evidently required by the sense.

4 the common reading, στάθεα, has no meaning. I have adopted the conjectural emendation of Wigan, in preference to στεριχθέντα, which is the reading of Ermerins.

5 ermerins alters the last two words to κατ᾽ ἰξύων.