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All subjects (including unvalidated):

subject	book bibliographic info
disease	Bay (2022) 109 Cadwallader (2016) 36, 45, 46, 174 Ekroth (2013) 69, 222 Feder (2022) 34, 38, 41, 49, 54, 61, 62, 63, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 112, 113, 114, 120, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 149, 187, 230, 234, 236, 237 Gagné (2020) 120, 218, 290, 337 Huffman (2019) 366 Ker and Wessels (2020) 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 Laes Goodey and Rose (2013) 5, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 64, 65, 67, 74, 78, 83, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 104, 107, 118, 122, 123, 132, 133, 135, 136, 138, 139, 147, 148, 155, 158, 159, 160, 164, 193, 194 Lateiner and Spatharas (2016) 19, 29, 48, 60, 63 Malherbe et al (2014) 119, 124, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 233 Seaford (2018) 38, 64, 95, 100, 137, 177 d, Hoine and Martijn (2017) 241, 244, 246, 252, 253, 254 van der EIjk (2005) 218, 224, 228, 236
disease, / aegritudo	Maso (2022) 33, 34, 146
disease, affecting individuals	Jouanna (2012) 56
disease, aggressive	Jouanna (2012) 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
disease, agria wild nosos	Gazis and Hooper (2021) 107
disease, agrios, characterising	Jouanna (2012) 82, 83, 84
disease, air, as cause of	Jouanna (2012) 59, 60, 122, 125
disease, ancient, classifications of	Jouanna (2012) 56
disease, and defects, of slaves	Nasrallah (2019) 72, 73
disease, and defects, slaves, slavery	Nasrallah (2019) 72, 73
disease, and healing, imagery	Geljon and Runia (2013) 134
disease, and ulcer, esthiein of	Jouanna (2012) 90, 91
disease, and, disgust	Rubenstein (2018) 132, 133
disease, animals, affected by	Jouanna (2012) 125
disease, aristotle, on health and	van der EIjk (2005) 263
disease, as cause of death of body politic	Walters (2020) 77, 81
disease, as distinct from constitution	van der EIjk (2005) 151, 154, 156
disease, as divine punishment	Gray (2021) 203, 204
disease, as term of abuse	Walters (2020) 37, 38
disease, as, pulse, punishment	Jouanna (2012) 59, 82
disease, avarice, as	Malherbe et al (2014) 342, 520
disease, brain as cause of	van der EIjk (2005) 51, 59
disease, cardiac	Jouanna (2012) 184
disease, causal explanation, of	van der EIjk (2005) 90, 115
disease, cause, of	Jouanna (2012) 11, 33, 62, 78, 109, 124, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 296
disease, caused by buildup of residues in belly	Walters (2020) 14
disease, chronic	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013) 34, 38, 59, 60, 96, 117, 123, 126, 138, 139, 147, 148, 156 van der EIjk (2005) 116
disease, cold, as cause of	van der EIjk (2005) 51, 55
disease, combat against	Jouanna (2012) 266
disease, compared to, animals, affected by disease	Jouanna (2012) 89
disease, conceived, as miasma	Jouanna (2012) 122
disease, curability of	van der EIjk (2005) 50, 61, 71, 115
disease, demonic conception of	Jouanna (2012) 63
disease, devouring	Jouanna (2012) 70, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
disease, dietetics, for the treatment of	van der EIjk (2005) 114, 117, 118
disease, divine, as opposed to human, healing of	Jouanna (2012) 66
disease, divine, the, character of	van der EIjk (2005) 46
disease, earlier imagery of	Walters (2020) 29
disease, epidemic	Jouanna (2012) 61, 127, 128, 135, 321
disease, epilepsy, as the sacred	Luck (2006) 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
disease, eros as a	Faraone (1999) 48, 49
disease, error as	Malherbe et al (2014) 193
disease, essence of	van der EIjk (2005) 24
disease, female	Jouanna (2012) 106
disease, figurative use	Gray (2021) 138, 175, 176, 203
disease, general	Jouanna (2012) 56, 59
disease, god, role in treatment of	Jouanna (2012) 112
disease, gods, as causes of	van der EIjk (2005) 58, 60, 65, 71
disease, guilt, as cause of	Jouanna (2012) 105, 107
disease, health	King (2006) 126, 141, 170, 190
disease, health, factors determining health and	Jouanna (2012) 156
disease, heat as cause of	Jouanna (2012) 131, 132, 133
disease, help, in treatment of	Jouanna (2012) 112
disease, hereditary	Jouanna (2012) 99
disease, hereditary aspects of	van der EIjk (2005) 131
disease, hippocrates, works, sacred	Jouanna (2012) 42, 44, 62, 63, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 110, 112, 122, 210, 241
disease, hippocratic corpus, on the sacred	Tor (2017) 27, 28, 29, 343
disease, hippocratic writings, on the sacred	van der EIjk (2005) 36, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 123, 131, 132, 134, 156, 191
disease, hippokratic healing, on the sacred text	Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 301
disease, hopelessness, of cases of	van der EIjk (2005) 57, 71, 115, 116
disease, human, nature of	van der EIjk (2005) 48, 49, 51, 52, 57, 58
disease, illness	Rohmann (2016) 73, 75, 76, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 97, 102, 118, 119, 125, 137, 141, 169, 189, 192
disease, imagery, in tullius cicero, m., cicero, general	Walters (2020) 29, 30, 31, 32
disease, in the body, location of mind, of	van der EIjk (2005) 120
disease, in tragedy, representation of	Jouanna (2012) 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
disease, individual	Jouanna (2012) 122
disease, infection, ix	Feder (2022) 28, 41, 42, 43, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 69, 70, 73, 83, 87, 114, 127, 181, 203, 252, 266
disease, job	Toloni (2022) 77, 81, 99
disease, lakes, used to describe	Jouanna (2012) 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
disease, late-republican imagery of	Walters (2020) 29, 30, 31, 32
disease, lung	Jouanna (2012) 182
disease, luxury, as a	Taylor and Hay (2020) 215
disease, medical ethics, treatment of	Wolfsdorf (2020) 533, 534, 535, 536, 537
disease, metaphor, for	Jouanna (2012) 90, 91
disease, method of divination, health and	Eidinow (2007) 104
disease, miraculous cures	Gray (2021) 146, 222, 225
disease, moral	Malherbe et al (2014) 428
disease, moral cause of	Jouanna (2012) 58, 59, 61
disease, morbus	Nisula (2012) 32, 34, 46, 91, 97, 119, 122, 162, 186, 294, 332
disease, morbus, as rendering for pathos	Graver (2007) 141
disease, mucius scaevola, q., augur, wasted by	Walters (2020) 27
disease, mytilene, natural, causes of	Jouanna (2012) 100, 106, 109
disease, nature, of	van der EIjk (2005) 49
disease, of false teaching	Malherbe et al (2014) 117
disease, of medical knowledge, transmission, of	Jouanna (2012) 116
disease, of soul	Geljon and Runia (2019) 216, 221 Malherbe et al (2014) 120, 231, 232
disease, of the body, moral cause of	Jouanna (2012) 225
disease, of the soul, emotions, as disorders/ sickness /	Agri (2022) 17, 18, 19, 45, 46, 56, 125, 131, 132
disease, of the soul, moral cause of	Jouanna (2012) 203, 206
disease, on, stage, representation of	Jouanna (2012) 71
disease, pandemic	Feder (2022) 73
disease, parricide, parricida, parricidium, combined with imagery of wounds and	Walters (2020) 108, 113, 114, 115
disease, particular	Jouanna (2012) 58
disease, pathology of war, and stasis as	Joho (2022) 68, 69
disease, phaedra	Fabian Meinel (2015) 40, 41
disease, prevention of	van der EIjk (2005) 25, 118
disease, psychological, causes of	Jouanna (2012) 65
disease, psychosomatic	van der EIjk (2005) 123
disease, rational, concept of medicine and	Jouanna (2012) 55, 56, 60, 61, 79
disease, religious prohibition, connected with	Jouanna (2012) 58, 59
disease, representation, of	Jouanna (2012) 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
disease, responsibility, collective, for	Jouanna (2012) 125
disease, sacred	Dijkstra and Raschle (2020) 77, 82 Jouanna (2012) 72, 98 Ker and Wessels (2020) 88, 89
disease, sacred, origin of	Jouanna (2012) 63
disease, saḫaršubbû, mesopotamian skin	Feder (2022) 61, 62, 63, 72, 77, 78, 79, 81
disease, saḫaršubbû, mesopotamian skin seed, loss of	Feder (2022) 34, 35, 43, 53, 188, 193, 207, 214, 215
disease, scale	Balberg (2014) 53, 67, 116, 140, 192, 193, 197, 198, 204, 216
disease, seneca, the younger, stoic, aristotelian metriopatheia ridiculed as belief in moderate	Sorabji (2000) 208, 209
disease, sergius catilina, l., catiline, as pestilence and	Walters (2020) 31, 32
disease, sexually transmitted	Phang (2001) 250
disease, sin as a cause of	Feder (2022) 49, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 124
disease, statuary, remedy against	Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 514
disease, stoicism, vice	Malherbe et al (2014) 124, 233, 428, 441
disease, strength, of	Jouanna (2012) 109
disease, suffering servant	Malherbe et al (2014) 264
disease, sun, as cause of	van der EIjk (2005) 51, 55
disease, symptoms of dionysus	Fabian Meinel (2015) 40, 41, 42, 53
disease, tobit	Toloni (2022) 99, 128
disease, treatment of	Wolfsdorf (2020) 533, 534, 535, 536, 537
disease, tsaraat skin	Kanarek (2014) 119, 120, 121, 134, 137, 138
disease, tullius cicero, m., cicero, attacks on catiline as	Walters (2020) 31, 32
disease, tullius cicero, m., cicero, attacks on clodius as	Walters (2020) 30, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49
disease, ubiquity in rome	Walters (2020) 27
disease, vice as	Malherbe et al (2014) 62
disease, water, effects on health and	Jouanna (2012) 156, 157, 158, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171
disease, wildness, of	Jouanna (2012) 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
disease, wind, as cause of	van der EIjk (2005) 51, 54
disease/affliction, of sotion, soul	Taylor and Hay (2020) 111
disease/illness	Wilson (2010) 97, 100, 101, 102, 109, 114, 115, 129, 130, 134, 143, 259, 365
diseased, limb, antonius, m., triumvir, as	Walters (2020) 114
diseased, limb, julius caesar, c., as	Walters (2020) 114
diseased, limbs	Walters (2020) 114
diseases	Huebner (2013) 165
diseases, acute	Jouanna (2012) 182
diseases, black	Jouanna (2012) 236
diseases, congenital disabilities and	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013) 12, 159, 160, 164, 172, 190, 194, 196, 197, 205, 215, 224
diseases, doctors of hesiod, hidden	Jouanna (2012) 10
diseases, endemic	Jouanna (2012) 128, 135
diseases, general	Jouanna (2012) 122
diseases, hippocrates, works	Jouanna (2012) 42, 44, 182, 191, 336
diseases, hippocrates, works, regimen in acute	Jouanna (2012) 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 42, 149, 179
diseases, hippocratic writings, on	van der EIjk (2005) 115
diseases, hippocratic writings, on generation / on the nature of the child/on	van der EIjk (2005) 269
diseases, illnesses, general	Jouanna (2012) 143
diseases, infectious	Tacoma (2016) 150, 158, 159
diseases, local	Jouanna (2012) 128
diseases, of girls, hippocrates, works	Jouanna (2012) 100
diseases, of head	Jouanna (2012) 191
diseases, of mind	Geljon and Runia (2013) 112
diseases, of skin	Jouanna (2012) 94
diseases, of soul	Geljon and Runia (2013) 111, 134, 184, 231 Jouanna (2012) 223
diseases, of women, hippocrates, works	Jouanna (2012) 42, 65, 99, 189
diseases, of women, hippocratic writings, on	van der EIjk (2005) 35
diseases, scale	Tellbe Wasserman and Nyman (2019) 11, 43, 45, 54, 56, 57, 58
diseases, see medicine, dyers, and collegia of	Goldman (2013) 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 36, 62
diseases, skin	Lavee (2017) 180, 222
diseases, sporadic	Jouanna (2012) 321

List of validated texts:

21 validated results for "disease"

1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 9.20 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • disease • imagery, disease and healing • mind, diseases of • soul, diseases of

Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 111, 112, 134, 184, 231; Laes Goodey and Rose (2013) 74

9.20. And Noah, the man of the land, began and planted a vineyard.''. None

2. Hebrew Bible, Leviticus, 13.4-13.5, 14.9, 14.33-14.57 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Metzora (someone suffering from a skin disease), cured of his affliction, examined by the priest • Tsaraat (skin disease) • disease • disease, infection, ix • saḫaršubbû (Mesopotamian skin disease) • saḫaršubbû (Mesopotamian skin disease), seed, loss of • scale disease • sin, as a cause of disease

Found in books: Balberg (2014) 192; Feder (2022) 68, 76, 78, 81, 82, 83, 91, 96, 100, 214, 230, 234; Kanarek (2014) 119; Kosman (2012) 136

13.4. וְאִישׁ כִּי יִמָּרֵט רֹאשׁוֹ קֵרֵחַ הוּא טָהוֹר הוּא׃
13.4. וְאִם־בַּהֶרֶת לְבָנָה הִוא בְּעוֹר בְּשָׂרוֹ וְעָמֹק אֵין־מַרְאֶהָ מִן־הָעוֹר וּשְׂעָרָה לֹא־הָפַךְ לָבָן וְהִסְגִּיר הַכֹּהֵן אֶת־הַנֶּגַע שִׁבְעַת יָמִים׃ 13.5. וְרָאָה הַכֹּהֵן אֶת־הַנָּגַע וְהִסְגִּיר אֶת־הַנֶּגַע שִׁבְעַת יָמִים׃ 13.5. וְרָאָהוּ הַכֹּהֵן בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי וְהִנֵּה הַנֶּגַע עָמַד בְּעֵינָיו לֹא־פָשָׂה הַנֶּגַע בָּעוֹר וְהִסְגִּירוֹ הַכֹּהֵן שִׁבְעַת יָמִים שֵׁנִית׃
14.9. וְהָיָה בַיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי יְגַלַּח אֶת־כָּל־שְׂעָרוֹ אֶת־רֹאשׁוֹ וְאֶת־זְקָנוֹ וְאֵת גַּבֹּת עֵינָיו וְאֶת־כָּל־שְׂעָרוֹ יְגַלֵּחַ וְכִבֶּס אֶת־בְּגָדָיו וְרָחַץ אֶת־בְּשָׂרוֹ בַּמַּיִם וְטָהֵר׃
14.33. וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה וְאֶל־אַהֲרֹן לֵאמֹר׃ 14.34. כִּי תָבֹאוּ אֶל־אֶרֶץ כְּנַעַן אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי נֹתֵן לָכֶם לַאֲחֻזָּה וְנָתַתִּי נֶגַע צָרַעַת בְּבֵית אֶרֶץ אֲחֻזַּתְכֶם׃ 14.35. וּבָא אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ הַבַּיִת וְהִגִּיד לַכֹּהֵן לֵאמֹר כְּנֶגַע נִרְאָה לִי בַּבָּיִת׃ 14.36. וְצִוָּה הַכֹּהֵן וּפִנּוּ אֶת־הַבַּיִת בְּטֶרֶם יָבֹא הַכֹּהֵן לִרְאוֹת אֶת־הַנֶּגַע וְלֹא יִטְמָא כָּל־אֲשֶׁר בַּבָּיִת וְאַחַר כֵּן יָבֹא הַכֹּהֵן לִרְאוֹת אֶת־הַבָּיִת׃ 14.37. וְרָאָה אֶת־הַנֶּגַע וְהִנֵּה הַנֶּגַע בְּקִירֹת הַבַּיִת שְׁקַעֲרוּרֹת יְרַקְרַקֹּת אוֹ אֲדַמְדַּמֹּת וּמַרְאֵיהֶן שָׁפָל מִן־הַקִּיר׃ 14.38. וְיָצָא הַכֹּהֵן מִן־הַבַּיִת אֶל־פֶּתַח הַבָּיִת וְהִסְגִּיר אֶת־הַבַּיִת שִׁבְעַת יָמִים׃ 14.39. וְשָׁב הַכֹּהֵן בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי וְרָאָה וְהִנֵּה פָּשָׂה הַנֶּגַע בְּקִירֹת הַבָּיִת׃' '14.41. וְאֶת־הַבַּיִת יַקְצִעַ מִבַּיִת סָבִיב וְשָׁפְכוּ אֶת־הֶעָפָר אֲשֶׁר הִקְצוּ אֶל־מִחוּץ לָעִיר אֶל־מָקוֹם טָמֵא׃ 14.42. וְלָקְחוּ אֲבָנִים אֲחֵרוֹת וְהֵבִיאוּ אֶל־תַּחַת הָאֲבָנִים וְעָפָר אַחֵר יִקַּח וְטָח אֶת־הַבָּיִת׃ 14.43. וְאִם־יָשׁוּב הַנֶּגַע וּפָרַח בַּבַּיִת אַחַר חִלֵּץ אֶת־הָאֲבָנִים וְאַחֲרֵי הִקְצוֹת אֶת־הַבַּיִת וְאַחֲרֵי הִטּוֹחַ׃ 14.44. וּבָא הַכֹּהֵן וְרָאָה וְהִנֵּה פָּשָׂה הַנֶּגַע בַּבָּיִת צָרַעַת מַמְאֶרֶת הִוא בַּבַּיִת טָמֵא הוּא׃ 14.45. וְנָתַץ אֶת־הַבַּיִת אֶת־אֲבָנָיו וְאֶת־עֵצָיו וְאֵת כָּל־עֲפַר הַבָּיִת וְהוֹצִיא אֶל־מִחוּץ לָעִיר אֶל־מָקוֹם טָמֵא׃ 14.46. וְהַבָּא אֶל־הַבַּיִת כָּל־יְמֵי הִסְגִּיר אֹתוֹ יִטְמָא עַד־הָעָרֶב׃ 14.47. וְהַשֹּׁכֵב בַּבַּיִת יְכַבֵּס אֶת־בְּגָדָיו וְהָאֹכֵל בַּבַּיִת יְכַבֵּס אֶת־בְּגָדָיו׃ 14.48. וְאִם־בֹּא יָבֹא הַכֹּהֵן וְרָאָה וְהִנֵּה לֹא־פָשָׂה הַנֶּגַע בַּבַּיִת אַחֲרֵי הִטֹּחַ אֶת־הַבָּיִת וְטִהַר הַכֹּהֵן אֶת־הַבַּיִת כִּי נִרְפָּא הַנָּגַע׃ 14.49. וְלָקַח לְחַטֵּא אֶת־הַבַּיִת שְׁתֵּי צִפֳּרִים וְעֵץ אֶרֶז וּשְׁנִי תוֹלַעַת וְאֵזֹב׃ 14.51. וְלָקַח אֶת־עֵץ־הָאֶרֶז וְאֶת־הָאֵזֹב וְאֵת שְׁנִי הַתּוֹלַעַת וְאֵת הַצִּפֹּר הַחַיָּה וְטָבַל אֹתָם בְּדַם הַצִּפֹּר הַשְּׁחוּטָה וּבַמַּיִם הַחַיִּים וְהִזָּה אֶל־הַבַּיִת שֶׁבַע פְּעָמִים׃ 14.52. וְחִטֵּא אֶת־הַבַּיִת בְּדַם הַצִּפּוֹר וּבַמַּיִם הַחַיִּים וּבַצִּפֹּר הַחַיָּה וּבְעֵץ הָאֶרֶז וּבָאֵזֹב וּבִשְׁנִי הַתּוֹלָעַת׃ 14.53. וְשִׁלַּח אֶת־הַצִּפֹּר הַחַיָּה אֶל־מִחוּץ לָעִיר אֶל־פְּנֵי הַשָּׂדֶה וְכִפֶּר עַל־הַבַּיִת וְטָהֵר׃ 14.54. זֹאת הַתּוֹרָה לְכָל־נֶגַע הַצָּרַעַת וְלַנָּתֶק׃ 14.55. וּלְצָרַעַת הַבֶּגֶד וְלַבָּיִת׃ 14.56. וְלַשְׂאֵת וְלַסַּפַּחַת וְלַבֶּהָרֶת׃ 14.57. לְהוֹרֹת בְּיוֹם הַטָּמֵא וּבְיוֹם הַטָּהֹר זֹאת תּוֹרַת הַצָּרָעַת׃''. None

13.4. And if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and the appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days. 13.5. And the priest shall look on him the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague stay in its appearance, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more.
14.9. And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off; and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
14.33. And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 14.34. When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 14.35. then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying: ‘There seemeth to me to be as it were a plague in the house.’ 14.36. And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go in to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house. 14.37. And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall; 14.38. then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. 14.39. And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house; 14.40. then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city. 14.41. And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place. 14.42. And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house. 14.43. And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that the stones have been taken out, and after the house hath been scraped, and after it is plastered; 14.44. then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a maligt leprosy in the house: it is unclean. 14.45. And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place. 14.46. Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. 14.47. And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. 14.48. And if the priest shall come in, and look, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. 14.49. And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. 14.50. And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 14.51. And he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 14.52. And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar-wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet. 14.53. But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field; so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean. 14.54. This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall; 14.55. and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house; 14.56. and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot; 14.57. to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean; this is the law of leprosy.''. None

3. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 5.1-5.3 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • disease • disease, infection, ix • disease, pandemic • saḫaršubbû (Mesopotamian skin disease) • scale disease

Found in books: Balberg (2014) 192; Feder (2022) 50, 69, 73, 77, 83, 187

5.1. וְאִישׁ אֶת־קֳדָשָׁיו לוֹ יִהְיוּ אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר־יִתֵּן לַכֹּהֵן לוֹ יִהְיֶה׃
5.1. וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר׃ 5.2. וְאַתְּ כִּי שָׂטִית תַּחַת אִישֵׁךְ וְכִי נִטְמֵאת וַיִּתֵּן אִישׁ בָּךְ אֶת־שְׁכָבְתּוֹ מִבַּלְעֲדֵי אִישֵׁךְ׃ 5.2. צַו אֶת־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וִישַׁלְּחוּ מִן־הַמַּחֲנֶה כָּל־צָרוּעַ וְכָל־זָב וְכֹל טָמֵא לָנָפֶשׁ׃ 5.3. אוֹ אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר תַּעֲבֹר עָלָיו רוּחַ קִנְאָה וְקִנֵּא אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ וְהֶעֱמִיד אֶת־הָאִשָּׁה לִפְנֵי יְהוָה וְעָשָׂה לָהּ הַכֹּהֵן אֵת כָּל־הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת׃'5.3. מִזָּכָר עַד־נְקֵבָה תְּשַׁלֵּחוּ אֶל־מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה תְּשַׁלְּחוּם וְלֹא יְטַמְּאוּ אֶת־מַחֲנֵיהֶם אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי שֹׁכֵן בְּתוֹכָם׃ '. None

5.1. And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 5.2. ’Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead; 5.3. both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst whereof I dwell.’''. None

4. None, None, nan (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Scale diseases • illness, disease

Found in books: Tellbe Wasserman and Nyman (2019) 43, 45, 56; Werline et al. (2008) 68

5. Hesiod, Works And Days, 102, 243 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • disease • disease, affecting individuals • disease,ancient classifications of • disease,general • rational, concept of medicine and disease

Found in books: Jouanna (2012) 56; Ker and Wessels (2020) 73; Lloyd (1989) 7, 13

102. νοῦσοι δʼ ἀνθρώποισιν ἐφʼ ἡμέρῃ, αἳ δʼ ἐπὶ νυκτὶ'
243. λιμὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ λοιμόν· ἀποφθινύθουσι δὲ λαοί. '. None

102. Grievous calamity, bringing to men'
243. Far-seeing Zeus sends them no dread warfare, '. None

6. Euripides, Medea, 1200 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • aggressive disease • animal imagery, disease as an animal • animals, affected by disease, disease compared to • devouring disease • disease, as a paradoxical phenomenon / experience • disease,representation of • lakes, used to describe disease • metaphors, description of disease through metaphorical language • tragedy, representation of disease in • wildness, of disease

Found in books: Jouanna (2012) 89, 95; Kazantzidis (2021) 93

1200. σάρκες δ' ἀπ' ὀστέων ὥστε πεύκινον δάκρυ"". None

1200. and from her bones the flesh kept peeling off beneath the gnawing of those secret drugs, e’en as when the pine-tree weeps its tears of pitch, a fearsome sight to see. And all were afraid to touch the corpse, for we were warned by what had chanced. Anon came her hapless father''. None

7. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 101 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cause, of disease • Dionysus, disease, symptoms of • disease,particular • moral cause of disease • religious prohibition, connected with disease

Found in books: Fabian Meinel (2015) 53; Jouanna (2012) 58, 124

101. By banishing the man, or by paying back bloodshed with bloodshed, since it is this blood which brings the tempest on our city. Oedipu''. None

8. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 313, 691-699 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • aggressive disease • animals, affected by disease, disease compared to • devouring disease • disease • disease, as a closural device • disease,representation of • esthiein, of disease and ulcer • lakes, used to describe disease • metaphor, for disease • tragedy, representation of disease in • wildness, of disease

Found in books: Jouanna (2012) 88, 89, 90; Kazantzidis (2021) 57; Lateiner and Spatharas (2016) 63

313. But there is one thing that no one will do, whenever I mention it: take me home in safety. No, this is already the tenth year that I am wasted by misery from hunger and suffering, by feeding this gluttonous plague. This is what the Atreids and the forceful Odysseus have done to me, boy.'
691. Here, he alone was his own neighbor, powerless to walk, with no one in the land to be his companion while he suffered—no one to whom he could cry out a lament that would be answered 695. for the plague that gnawed his flesh and drained his blood—no one to lull with healing herbs gathered from the nourishing earth the burning blood which oozed from the ulcers of hi '. None

9. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 770 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • disease, as a paradoxical phenomenon / experience • metaphors, description of disease through metaphorical language • stage, representation of disease on

Found in books: Jouanna (2012) 71; Kazantzidis (2021) 97

770. a convulsive, biting pain in his bones; and then the venom, like that of some deadly, cruel viper, began to devour him. At that he shouted for the ill-fated Lichas—who was in no way to blame for your crime—asking by what plots he had brought that robe. ''. None

10. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 2.47, 2.49.6, 2.50.1, 2.51.4, 2.52.4, 2.53, 3.3.3 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cause, of disease • Hippocrates, works,, Regimen in Acute Diseases • Pathology of war, and stasis as disease • Pulse, punishment, disease as • air, as cause of disease • disease • disease, as a closural device • disease, sudden occurrence of • disease, treatment of • disease,general • endemic diseases • epidemic disease • medical ethics, treatment of disease • memory, loss of it as a consequence of disease • metaphors, disease as a metaphor • moral cause of disease • religious prohibition, connected with disease • ‘reversion’ (epistrophē), ‘sacred disease’

Found in books: Hankinson (1998) 51, 52; Joho (2022) 68; Jouanna (2012) 35, 59, 135; Kazantzidis (2021) 60, 63, 161, 162; Lloyd (1989) 12; Wolfsdorf (2020) 533

2.49.6. καὶ ἡ ἀπορία τοῦ μὴ ἡσυχάζειν καὶ ἡ ἀγρυπνία ἐπέκειτο διὰ παντός. καὶ τὸ σῶμα, ὅσονπερ χρόνον καὶ ἡ νόσος ἀκμάζοι, οὐκ ἐμαραίνετο, ἀλλ’ ἀντεῖχε παρὰ δόξαν τῇ ταλαιπωρίᾳ, ὥστε ἢ διεφθείροντο οἱ πλεῖστοι ἐναταῖοι καὶ ἑβδομαῖοι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐντὸς καύματος, ἔτι ἔχοντές τι δυνάμεως, ἢ εἰ διαφύγοιεν, ἐπικατιόντος τοῦ νοσήματος ἐς τὴν κοιλίαν καὶ ἑλκώσεώς τε αὐτῇ ἰσχυρᾶς ἐγγιγνομένης καὶ διαρροίας ἅμα ἀκράτου ἐπιπιπτούσης οἱ πολλοὶ ὕστερον δι’ αὐτὴν ἀσθενείᾳ διεφθείροντο.
2.50.1. γενόμενον γὰρ κρεῖσσον λόγου τὸ εἶδος τῆς νόσου τά τε ἄλλα χαλεπωτέρως ἢ κατὰ τὴν ἀνθρωπείαν φύσιν προσέπιπτεν ἑκάστῳ καὶ ἐν τῷδε ἐδήλωσε μάλιστα ἄλλο τι ὂν ἢ τῶν ξυντρόφων τι: τὰ γὰρ ὄρνεα καὶ τετράποδα ὅσα ἀνθρώπων ἅπτεται, πολλῶν ἀτάφων γιγνομένων ἢ οὐ προσῄει ἢ γευσάμενα διεφθείρετο.
2.51.4. δεινότατον δὲ παντὸς ἦν τοῦ κακοῦ ἥ τε ἀθυμία ὁπότε τις αἴσθοιτο κάμνων ʽπρὸς γὰρ τὸ ἀνέλπιστον εὐθὺς τραπόμενοι τῇ γνώμῃ πολλῷ μᾶλλον προΐεντο σφᾶς αὐτοὺς καὶ οὐκ ἀντεῖχον̓, καὶ ὅτι ἕτερος ἀφ’ ἑτέρου θεραπείας ἀναπιμπλάμενοι ὥσπερ τὰ πρόβατα ἔθνῃσκον: καὶ τὸν πλεῖστον φθόρον τοῦτο ἐνεποίει.
2.52.4. νόμοι τε πάντες ξυνεταράχθησαν οἷς ἐχρῶντο πρότερον περὶ τὰς ταφάς, ἔθαπτον δὲ ὡς ἕκαστος ἐδύνατο. καὶ πολλοὶ ἐς ἀναισχύντους θήκας ἐτράποντο σπάνει τῶν ἐπιτηδείων διὰ τὸ συχνοὺς ἤδη προτεθνάναι σφίσιν: ἐπὶ πυρὰς γὰρ ἀλλοτρίας φθάσαντες τοὺς νήσαντας οἱ μὲν ἐπιθέντες τὸν ἑαυτῶν νεκρὸν ὑφῆπτον, οἱ δὲ καιομένου ἄλλου ἐπιβαλόντες ἄνωθεν ὃν φέροιεν ἀπῇσαν.
3.3.3. ἐσηγγέλθη γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὡς εἴη Ἀπόλλωνος Μαλόεντος ἔξω τῆς πόλεως ἑορτή, ἐν ᾗ πανδημεὶ Μυτιληναῖοι ἑορτάζουσι, καὶ ἐλπίδα εἶναι ἐπειχθέντας ἐπιπεσεῖν ἄφνω, καὶ ἢν μὲν ξυμβῇ ἡ πεῖρα: εἰ δὲ μή, Μυτιληναίοις εἰπεῖν ναῦς τε παραδοῦναι καὶ τείχη καθελεῖν, μὴ πειθομένων δὲ πολεμεῖν.' '. None

2.49.6. Besides this, the miserable feeling of not being able to rest or sleep never ceased to torment them. The body meanwhile did not waste away so long as the distemper was at its height, but held out to a marvel against its ravages; so that when they succumbed, as in most cases, on the seventh or eighth day to the internal inflammation, they had still some strength in them. But if they passed this stage, and the disease descended further into the bowels, inducing a violent ulceration there accompanied by severe diarrhea, this brought on a weakness which was generally fatal.
2.50.1. But while the nature of the distemper was such as to baffle all description, and its attacks almost too grievous for human nature to endure, it was still in the following circumstance that its difference from all ordinary disorders was most clearly shown. All the birds and beasts that prey upon human bodies, either abstained from touching them (though there were many lying unburied), or died after tasting them.
2.51.4. By far the most terrible feature in the malady was the dejection which ensued when anyone felt himself sickening, for the despair into which they instantly fell took away their power of resistance, and left them a much easier prey to the disorder; besides which, there was the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep, through having caught the infection in nursing each other. This caused the greatest mortality. ' "
2.52.4. All the burial rites before in use were entirely upset, and they buried the bodies as best they could. Many from want of the proper appliances, through so many of their friends having died already, had recourse to the most shameless sepultures: sometimes getting the start of those who had raised a pile, they threw their own dead body upon the stranger's pyre and ignited it; sometimes they tossed the corpse which they were carrying on the top of another that was burning, and so went off. " '
3.3.3. word having been brought them of a festival in honor of the Malean Apollo outside the town, which is kept by the whole people of Mitylene, and at which, if haste were made, they might hope to take them by surprise. If this plan succeeded, well and good; if not, they were to order the Mitylenians to deliver up their ships and to pull down their walls, and if they did not obey, to declare war. ' '. None

11. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • disease

Found in books: Chaniotis (2012) 177; Lateiner and Spatharas (2016) 48

12. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Classification of disease • disease, treatment of • medical ethics, treatment of disease

Found in books: Petridou (2016) 481; Wolfsdorf (2020) 535

13. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hippocrates, works,, Sacred Disease • Hippocratic writings, On the Sacred Disease

Found in books: Jouanna (2012) 108; van der EIjk (2005) 56, 191

14. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hippocratic corpus, On the Sacred Disease • disease • sacred disease

Found in books: Ker and Wessels (2020) 84, 85, 86, 89; Tor (2017) 28, 29

15. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hippocrates, works,, Diseases of Girls • Hippocrates, works,, Sacred Disease • Hippocratic corpus, On the Sacred Disease • Hippocratic writings, On the Sacred Disease • Mytilene, natural, causes of disease • air, as cause of disease • black diseases • brain, as cause of disease • cold, as cause of disease • disease • disease,conceived as miasma • general, diseases • hereditary aspects of disease • human, nature of disease • individual, disease • location of mind, of disease in the body • sacred disease • sun, as cause of disease • wind, as cause of disease

Found in books: Jouanna (2012) 100, 122, 236, 241; Ker and Wessels (2020) 86, 88; Tor (2017) 27; van der EIjk (2005) 51, 52, 54, 120, 131

16. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Disease / aegritudo • Seneca, the Younger, Stoic, Aristotelian metriopatheia ridiculed as belief in moderate disease • Stoicism, vice, disease • disease • disease, and poetic design • disease, as a closural device • disease, literalisation of • disease, moral • emotions, as disorders/ sickness / disease of the soul

Found in books: Agri (2022) 18, 45, 46, 132; Kazantzidis (2021) 39, 48, 56; Malherbe et al (2014) 124, 428, 441; Maso (2022) 34; Sorabji (2000) 208

17. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Disease, illness • disease • disease, as a closural device • disease, as a force of (re)creation • disease, as a force of destruction • disease, as a means of understanding earthquakes and volcanoes • disease, as a paradoxical phenomenon / experience • disease, as a sublime spectacle • disease, sudden occurrence of • health, disease • memory, loss of it as a consequence of disease • memory, overpowering disease through memory of past events • metaphors, description of disease through metaphorical language • metaphors, disease as a metaphor • oxymoron, of disease as a maker / architect (of death)” • signs, as disease symptoms

Found in books: Kazantzidis (2021) 11, 31, 34, 35, 43, 49, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 90, 97, 107, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 162; King (2006) 190; Lloyd (1989) 31; Perkell (1989) 162, 166; Rohmann (2016) 141

18. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 75.7, 116.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Seneca, the Younger, Stoic, Aristotelian metriopatheia ridiculed as belief in moderate disease • Stoicism, vice, disease • disease • disease, as a closural device • emotions, as disorders/ sickness / disease of the soul

Found in books: Agri (2022) 18; Kazantzidis (2021) 74; Malherbe et al (2014) 124; Sorabji (2000) 209

75.7. Why do you tickle my ears? Why do you entertain me? There is other business at hand; I am to be cauterized, operated upon, or put on a diet. That is why you were summoned to treat me! You are required to cure a disease that is chronic and serious, – one which affects the general weal. You have as serious a business on hand as a physician has during a plague. Are you concerned about words? Rejoice this instant if you can cope with things. When shall you learn all that there is to learn? When shall you so plant in your mind that which you have learned, that it cannot escape? When shall you put it all into practice? For it is not sufficient merely to commit these things to memory, like other matters; they must be practically tested. He is not happy who only knows them, but he who does them. ' '. None

19. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.111 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • disease (morbus), as rendering for pathos • emotions, as disorders/ sickness / disease of the soul

Found in books: Agri (2022) 18; Graver (2007) 141

7.111. They hold the emotions to be judgements, as is stated by Chrysippus in his treatise On the Passions: avarice being a supposition that money is a good, while the case is similar with drunkenness and profligacy and all the other emotions.And grief or pain they hold to be an irrational mental contraction. Its species are pity, envy, jealousy, rivalry, heaviness, annoyance, distress, anguish, distraction. Pity is grief felt at undeserved suffering; envy, grief at others' prosperity; jealousy, grief at the possession by another of that which one desires for oneself; rivalry, pain at the possession by another of what one has oneself."". None

20. None, None, nan (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • disease • disease and defects, of slaves • slaves, slavery, disease and defects

Found in books: Laes Goodey and Rose (2013) 155; Nasrallah (2019) 72

21. Vergil, Georgics, 3.515
Tagged with subjects: • animal imagery, animalization caused by disease • disease, sudden occurrence of • signs, as disease symptoms

Found in books: Kazantzidis (2021) 81; Perkell (1989) 164

3.515. Ecce autem duro fumans sub vomere taurus''. None

3.515. With showers of Spring and rainy south-winds earth''. None

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