canonical-greekLit/data/tlg0719/tlg002/tlg0719.tlg002.perseus-grc2.xml
εἰ ἀπὸ δρόμου καὶ γυμνασίων καὶ παντὸς ἔργου δυσπνοεῖ ἡ ἀναπνοὴ, ἆσθμα καλεῖται· καὶ ἡ νοῦσος δὲ ὀρθόπνοια, καὶ ἥδε κικλήσκεται ἆσθμα· ἐν γὰρ τοῖσι παροξυσμοῖσι ἀσθμαίνουσι καὶ οἵδε. ὀρθόπνοιαν δὲ ἐκάλεον, οὕνεκεν ὀρθίῳ σχήματι μοῦνον ἀναπνέουσι εὐφόρως · πνὶξ γὰρ ἐν κατακλίσι . εἵνεκεν τοῦ τόνου τοῦ ἐπὶ τῷ πνεύματι ὀρθόπνοια τοὔνομα.Ermerins suppresses the last clause of the sentence altogether, on the ground that it is superfluous and out of place. I fear this must be held to be an unwarrantable liberty on the part of an editor, whose duty it is to restore the words, but not attempt to improve the sense of his author. ὄρθιος γὰρ ἀνατέταται ἐς ἀναπνοὴν, κἢν ὕπτιος κατακλινθῇ ὥνθρωπος, κίνδυνος πνιγῆναι.