[47] Jowett’s Thucydides. We have ventured to introduce one or two slight modifications into Professor Jowett’s translation, indicating them by italics. In medicine it makes a world of difference, whether a disease is the same or similar: its course too, is something quite distinct from its character.
[48] ii. 48 end.
[49] The discussion of clinical details has been relegated to an Appendix, as they are rather of medical than of literary or artistic interest. They are, nevertheless, essential to a full appreciation of the merits of the description that Thucydides gives of the pestilence.
[50] viii. 41. 7.
[51] ii. 54.
[52] i. 3. 3.
[53] Pausanias, ix. 22. 1.
[54] Life of Numa.
[55] Frazer, Golden Bough.
[56] Pausanias, ix. 22. 1.