^{page 98 note 2} i. 23; ii. 31, 47, 50–54, 57–59, 61, 64; iii. 3, 87; vi. 12, 26; &c.

^{page 98 note 3} i.e. not enteric, dysentery, phthisis, malaria, &c.

^{page 98 note 4} οἱ ⋯ρετ⋯ς τι μεταποιούμενοι.

^{page 98 note 5} ὢστε κα⋯ κτείνειν (ii. 51); i.e., if it did not kill him the first time.

^{page 98 note 6} Cf. i. 138, ii. 20, &c. There is no suggestion of disbelief.

^{page 99 note 1} i.e. a sea-borne disease.

^{page 99 note 2} γευσάμενα: Shrewsbury, J. F. D., ‘The Plague of Athens’, Bull. Hist. Med. xxiv (1950), 01, twice (pp. 14, 23) renders ‘touched them’.Google Scholar

^{page 99 note 3} It had already crossed from Carthage to Rome: Livy iv. 21, 25, 26, &c.

^{page 99 note 4} Salway, A. and Dell, W., ‘Plague at Athens’, Greece & Rome, Second Series, ii (1955), 62–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar I assume this is what they mean, though I cannot construe the first paragraph on p. 64.

^{page 99 note 5} Except very briefly as regards measles and bubonic plague.

^{page 99 note 6} Poisoning had already been rejected, ii. 48.

^{page 99 note 7} J. F. D. Shrewsbury, loc. cit., pp. 3 ff.

^{page 99 note 8} Page, D. L., Class. Quarterly, N.S. iii (1953), 119.Google Scholar

^{page 100 note 1} Collier, D., History of the Plague at Athens (London, 1857).Google Scholar

^{page 100 note 2} Shrewsbury misquotes Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, ascribing to the small-pox epidemic of 1520 (vol. v, ch. 6) the ghastly mortality from starvation in 1521, vol. vi, chs. 7, 8.

^{page 100 note 3} ταλαιπωρία. The word regularly implies hard physical work or bodily exhaustion: ‘the Athenians, exhausted by the Sickness’ (iii. 3); ‘the Mytilenean envoys arrived prostrated by the voyage’ (? seasick, iii. 4); ‘I'm worn out—my husband coughed all night’ (Aristophanes, Eccles. 54).

^{page 100 note 4} ⋯ναταῖοι κα⋯ ⋯βδομαῖοι—a very curious phrase. Lucretius translates ‘eighth or ninth day’; Page (twice) ‘seventh or ninth’: both evidently feeling ‘ninth or seventh’ awkward. I venture to suggest ⋯κταῖοι κα⋯ ⋯βδομαῖοι, ‘they died on the sixth day or the seventh’, what we should call the fifth or sixth.

^{page 101 note 1} Finley, J. H., Thucydides (London, 1947), p. 158.Google Scholar Cf. ‘Wheat and barley are sometimes attacked but ergot is very rare on oats’ (‘Ergot’, Min. of Agriculture Bulletin, 1950).

^{page 101 note 2} Ehlers, E., ‘Ignis Sacer’; Encyclop. scient, des aide-mém. (Paris, 1806)Google Scholar; L'Ergotisme (Paris, 1902).

^{page 101 note 3} There are many records of cannibalism.

^{page 102 note 1} Gabbai, H., –. Lisbonne, , and Pourquier, H., ‘Ergot Poisoning at Saint-Esprit’, Brit. Med.Journ., 15 09 1953, p. 650.Google Scholar Sweating the most prominent symptom, vomiting and/or diarrhoea in 30 per cent.

^{page 102 note 2} οὔτ' ἄγαν θερμόν ν, οὔτε χλωρόν.

^{page 102 note 3} The age-old tradition that swarms of rats, &c., presage human epidemics is due to the habit of such creatures when sick of leaving their burrows; so that thousands may suddenly appear, dying and dead, in a town beneath which they had long dwelt almost unnoticed.

^{page 102 note 4} 1 Sam. v. 9; ? Iliad i. 36, 50.

^{page 102 note 5} ‘The Lord shall smite thee with the botch of Egypt, … with the buboes whereof thou canst not be healed’, Deut. xxviii. 27.

^{page 102 note 6} History of the Franks, x. 30 (? AS. Chronicle, a.d. 671).

^{page 102 note 7} Decameron, i. 1.

^{page 102 note 8} Gasquet, Cardinal F. A., The Great Pestilence (London, 1906), pp. 2, 19, 26Google Scholar, &c. (‘birds would not eat the corpses’, p. 139); the Emperor John Canta-cazune, who lost his son Andronicus, uses almost exactly the words of Thucy-dides.

^{page 102 note 9} Manson, 's Tropical Diseases (13th ed., London, 1950), p. 276.Google Scholar

^{page 102 note 10} Epidemics, iii. 3, 4.