Of The Epidemics   

parturition, and after labor they were taken ill, and these most

especially died, as, for example, the daughter of Telebolus died on

the sixth day after delivery. Most females had the menstrual discharge

during the fever, and many girls had it then for the first time: in

certain individuals both the hemorrhage from the nose and the menses

appeared; thus, in the case of the virgin daughter of Daetharses,

the menses then took place for the first time, and she had also a

copinous hemorrhage from the nose, and I knew no instance of any one

dying when one or other of these took place properly. But all those in

the pregnant state that were attacked had abortions, as far as I

observed. The urine in most cases was of the proper color, but thin,

and having scanty sediments: in most the bowels were disordered with

thin and bilious dejections; and many, after passing through the other

crises, terminated in dysenteries, as happened to Xenophanes and

Critias. The urine was watery, copious, clear, and thin; and even

after the crises, when the sediment was natural, and all the other

critical symptoms were favorable, as I recollect having happened to

Bion, who was lodged in the house of Silenus, and Critias, who lived

with Xenophanes, the slave of Areton, and the wife of Mnesistratus.

But afterwards all these were attacked with dysentery. It would be

worth while to inquire whether the watery urine was the cause of this.

About the season of Arcturus many had the crisis on the eleventh

day, and in them the regular relapses did not take place, but they

became comatose about this time, especially children; but there were

fewest deaths of all among them.

11. About the equinox, and until the season of the Pleiades, and

at the approach of winter, many ardent fevers set in; but great

numbers at that season were seized with phrenitis, and many died; a

few cases also occurred during the summer. These then made their

attack at the commencement of ardent fevers, which were attended

with fatal symptoms; for immediately upon their setting in, there were

acute fever and small rigors, insomnolency, aberration, thirst,