Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ΑΡΕΤΑΙΟΥ ΚΑΠΠΑΔΟΚΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΑΙΤΙΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΣΗΜΕΙΩΝ ΧΡΟΝΙΩΝ ΠΑΘΩΝ, ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ Α., Κεφ. β. περὶ Κεφαλαίης.

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Κεφ. β. περὶ Κεφαλαίης.

ἢν ἀλγέῃ κεφαλὴ σχεδίως ἐπὶ προσκαίρῳ αἰτίῃ, κἢν ἐπὶ πλεῦνας, κεφαλαλγίη καλέεται. ἢν δὲ διεθίζῃ χρόνῳ μακρῷ τὸ ἄλγημα, καὶ περιόδοισι μακρῇσι καὶ πολλῇσι, καὶ προσεπιγίγνηται μέζω τε καὶ πλεῦνα δυσαλθῆ, κεφαλαίην κικλήσκομεν.

ἰδέαι δὲ μυρίαι. τισὶ μὲν γὰρ ἀΐδιος ὁ πόνος καὶ σμικρὸς, ἀλλ᾽ οὐ διαλείπων: τισὶ δὲ ἐς περίοδον περιπλεῖ, ὅκως τοῖσι πυρεταίνουσι ἀμφημερινὸν παρ᾽ ἡμέρην: ἄλλοισι δ᾽ ἀπὸ δύσιος ἐς μεσημβρίην , καὶ τῇδε τέλεον ἀποπαύεται: ἢ ἀπὸ μεσημβρίης ἐς ἐσπέρην: ἢ ἐπίπροσθεν ἐς νύκτα. ἥδε ἡ περίοδος οὐ κάρτα δηθύνει : καὶ τοῖσι μὲν ἡ κεφαλὴ ἀλγέει πᾶσα: καὶ ἥδε ἄλλοτε μὲν ἐπὶ δεξιά: ἄλλοτε δὲ ἐπ᾽ ἀριστερά: ἢ μέτωπον, ἢ βρέγμα, καὶ ταῦτα ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρῃ Ρ῾εμβώδεα τρόπον.

τοῖσι δὲ καὶ τὰ δεξιὰ μοῦνον, ἢ τὰ λαιὰ μοῦνον, ἐς ὅσον ὁρίζων κρόταφος, ἢ ὦς, ἢ καὶ ὀφρὺς μία, ἢ ὀφθαλμὸς εἷς, ἢ Ρ῾ὶς μέσφι μέσου ἐς ἶσα τέμνει, ἐπέκεινα δὲ τὸ ἄλγημα οὐ περῇ ἀλλ᾽ ἐν ἡμίσεϊ μίμνει τῷ τῆς κεφαλῆς χωρίῳ.¹ ἑτεροκρανίη τόδε μοῦνον καλέεται: οὐκ εὔηθες κακὸν, κἢν διαλείπῃ, κἢν σμικρὸν ἔμμεναι δοκέῃ: ἢν γὰρ ἐμπέσῃ κοτὲ ὀξέως, αἰσχρὰ καὶ δεινὰ πρήσσει: σπασμὸς καὶ διαστροφὴ τοῦ προσώπου γίγνεται: ὀφθαλμοὶ ἢ ἀτενέες κέρασι ἴκελοι πεπήγασι, ἢ τῇδε κἀκεῖσε σπασμώδε ες ἔνδον εἱλῶνται: σκοτόδινος : ὀφθαλμῶν ὑποβρύχιος πόνος ἄχρι μηνίγγων. ἱδρὼς ἄσχετος, τενόντων ἐξαπίνης ἄλγος,² ὡσπερεί τινος πατάξαντος [p. 53] ξύλῳ: ναυτίη, ἔμετος χολωδέων, κατάπτωσις τοῦ ἀνθρώπου : ἢν δ᾽ ἐπιτείνῃ κοτὲ τὸ πάθος, ὥνθρωπος ἐτελεύτησε . ἢν δὲ σμικρότερονᾖ, καὶ ἐς ὄλεθρονἀσινὲς, χρονίζει, ὄκνος πουλὺς, καρηβαρίη, ἀπορίη, ζωὴ δύσφορος. καὶ γάρ πως φεύγουσι τὴν αὐγήν: σκότος δὲ πρηο̈́νει τουτέοισι τὴν νοῦσον: οὐ δὲ ἐσιδεῖν τι ἢ ἀκοῦσαι τερπνὸν εὔφοροι : κάκοδμοι τὴν ὄσφρησιν, καὶ οὔτε τι εὐῶδες αὐτέους τέρπει, ἐκτρέπονται δὲ καὶ τὰ κακώδεα : ἄχθονται τῷ βίῳ, θανατῶσι ὥνθρωποι.

αἰτίη δὲ τουτέων ξὺν ξηρότητι ψύξις: ἢν δὲ δηθύνῃ καὶ ἐς μέζον ἕρπῃ ἐπὶ τοῖσι πόνοισι, τὸ πάθος σκότωμα γίγνεται.

1 the changes in the text here introduced by Ermerins, are absolutely demanded by the confused state of matters as they stand in the mss.

2 the common reading is ἱδρὼς ἄσχετος τενόντων ἐξαπίνης ἄλογος, which Ermerins alters to ἱδρὼς ἄσχετος : τενόντων πόνος ἐξαπίνης, ἄλογος; but the obvious objection to this emendation is, that it does not account for the omission of πόνος in the common text. On my own authority, I altered the passage as above; but I find that I had been anticipated by Wigan in so far.

The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian. Aretaeus. Francis Adams LL.D. Boston. Milford House Inc. 1972 (Republication of the 1856 edition).

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