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Apoplêxia
Adler number: alpha,3480
Translated headword: apoplexy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] an affliction.
A madness, an insanity.
"Marcus Verus, brother of Antoninus [and] emperor of the Romans, passed away unexpectedly, when a mass of serous discharge and air[1] held back his respiration - the condition, of course, that slaves of doctors call apoplexy."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)po/plhktos ["apoplectic"], he who has suffered [sc. from apoplexy].[3]
Greek Original:Apoplêxia: thlipsis. mania, anoia. hoti Markos Bêros, Antôninou adelphos, basileus Rhômaiôn, adokêtôs diaphtheiretai, plêthous ichôros te kai pneumatos epischontos hoi tên anapnoên: ho dê pathos apoplêxian paides iatrôn onomazousi. kai Apoplêktos, ho peponthôs.
Notes:
[1] The serous discharge and the air were supposed to be different parts of the blood.
[2]
Aelian fr. 207 Domingo-Forasté (206 Hercher); cf. Eutropius,
Breviarium 8.10. On Lucius [sic] Verus, adoptive brother of Marcus Aurelius and co-emperor with him 161-169, see generally OCD(4) p.1543. In modern-day terms his death was caused by a stroke.
[3] For this word in another sense see under
gamma 323.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 June 2001@00:48:01.
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