[2] Joann Cantacuzen Historiar, L. IV. c. 8. Ed. Paris, p. 730. 5. The ex-emperor has indeed copied some passages from Thucydides, as Sprengel justly observes, (Appendix to the Geschichte der Medicin. Vol. 1. H. I. S. 73.) though this was most probably only for the sake of rounding a period. This is no detriment to his credibility, because his statements accord with the other accounts.
[3] Αποσάσεις μεγάλαι.
[4] Μελαίναι φλυχτίδες.
[5] ὤσπερ σιγματα μέλανα.
[6] Guidon de Cauliaco Chirurgia. Tract 11. c. 5. p. 113. Ed. Lugdun, 1572.
[7] Et fuit tantae contagiositatis specialiter quae fuit cum sputo sanguinis, quod non solum morando, sed etiam inspiciendo unus recipiebat ab alio: intantum quod gentes moriebantur sine servitoribus, et sepeliebantur sine sacerdotibus, pater non visitabat filium, nec filius patrem: charitas erat mortua, spes prostrata.
[8] Deguignes, Histoire générale des Huns, des Turcs, des Moguls, &c. Tom. IV. Paris 1758. 4to. p. 226.
[9] Decameron Giorn. I. Introd.
[10] From this period black petechiæ have always been considered as fatal in the plague.
[11] A very usual circumstance in plague epidemics.