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The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity ... / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the 6th (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A.

  • Georg August Wilhelm Julius Rosenbaum
Date:
1901
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Credit: The plague of lust : being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity ... / by Julius Rosenbaum ; translated from the 6th (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    does not commend itself at any rate to us, with the passage about the Scythians in his mind’s eye. But we can only arrive at a probable emendation on the condition that we correctly estimate the sequence of the sentences as a whole. If we are not greatly mistaken, it is as follows: First of all the question is of a Eunuch who became dropsical ; then in connection with this, the vest is added applying to another Eunuch. In the Book wegi yoriis (Of the Seed), (Vol. I. p. 273. K.) we read: oé dé Eby0öxoL dia taüre ob Auyvsdovoıy, dt Cgéwyr y Stodog duardiveran tig yorag — atty den diodos UXO Tig TOUTS OLVARS yEevousvyg OTEQEN yeyovev. (Now Eunuchs are not lascivious, because in them the passage of the seed is wasted away,... and this passage has become hardened by the wound where they were cut getting skinned over but festering within). Now we might well be tempted to read in the text: 6 negl ta &§ Erea Und TH TOMAS ObATS zul BovBüre, that is to say, the man suffered for six years in consequence of the skinning over of the cut from swelling in the groin, etc. However this could hardly be justified, and we think it much better to join tad and obAgs, and either to read UNOVA0G, bXOVAGS or bXOVAHY nepl va Bovßöve, that is, he had had for six years festering places in the inguinal region,—which idea possibly Calvus may have had in his mind, or else txovdyjy te xal BovBéyvras, he had had for six years festering places (fistulas), inguinal swellings, etc., or finally, what might seem the best of all, vaovdov BovBara, a festering inguinal region *. In the De morbis mulierum, ! Suidas writes: b2ovhog gAsyuaivov die tivag many as — og En) tay thud, tev nol eyybs tod e&plotactar éyovtav obhug öyızig &nıno- Ov Koocrivos trovio halas,Evöchev dtonmeddvas Chun’ te xnovare. — mvadsic. — btx0vhia Hesychius: taovia dé yovata nal brovioy héystonr t& un] pavsok tay rode Hal bnoviov <dptahudy Elun. ümovkos yeloa@ nab Gua’ td —applied to wounds, those
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