Hippocrates on airs, waters and places / the received Greek text of Littré, with Latin, French, and English translations by eminent scholars.

  • Hippocrates
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1881
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    I ! VI. VI. un fromage nomme hippace. Tels sont leurs coutumes et leur genre de vie. 95. 19. Beste aparler des saisons, des dissemblances que les Scythes out avec les autres hommes, de la ressemblance qu'ils ont entr'eux comme les Egyptiens, de leur peio de fecondite, de la petitesse et du petit nomhre d'animaux que cette contree nourrit?- La ScytJde, en effet, est placee sous I'ourse meme et sous les monts Riphees, d'ou souffle le vent du nord. Le soleil ne s'en approche qu'au solstice d'ete, etalors il ne Vechauffe que pour peu de temps et avec peu deforce. Les vents- qui soufflent des regions chaudes n'y parviennent que ■ rarement et affailUs ; 96. Au contraire il y souffle, du Septentrion, des vents froids a ca.use de la neige, des glaces et de Vhumidite excessive qui n'aban- donnent jamais les monts UipTiees; et c'est ce qui les rend inhabitables.^ ' Coray translates : — Ce qne je viens d'observer snr la temperature des saisons dans la Scythie, et la physionomie de ses habitans (qni, comme les Egj-ptiens, se res- semblent entr'eax autant qn'ils different des autres peuples), est I'effet de la position meme de lenr pays; k laquelle il faut anssi attribner le pen de fecondite, eoit de I'espece humaine, soit des animanx sanvages, qui y sont pins rares et plus petits qn' aillenrs. ' C. Les vents chauds . . . ' C. et qni les rendent inhabitables (p. 91). boiled meat, and drink the milk of mareSj and also eat hippace, which is cheese prepared from the milk of the mare. Such are their mode of life and their customs. 95. ] 9. In respect of the seasons and figure of body, the Scythian race, like the Egyptian, have a uniformity of resemblance, different from all other nations; they are by no means prolific, and the wild beasts which are indigenous there are small in size and few in num- ber, for the country lies under the Northern Bears, and the Riphaean Mountains,! whence the north wind blows; the sun comes very near to them only when in the summer solstice, and warms them but for a short period, and not strongly; and the winds blowing from the hot regions of the earth do not reach them, or but seldom, and with little force ; 96. but the winds from the north always blow, con- gealed, as they are, by the snow, the ice, and much water, for these never leave the mountains, which ^ Adams takes the Ural Mountains to be intended.
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