canonical-greekLit/data/tlg0719/tlg001/tlg0719.tlg001.perseus-grc1.xml
Ἢν δὲ πλησίον ἤδηThe common reading in the mss. is εἴδεος, which is evidently inadmissible. Petit, in his commentary, suggests that the true reading is δέος ᾑ. Wigan also prefers πλησίον εἴη δέος.  Ermerins accordingly reads πλησίον ἔῃ δέοσμ. None of these editors, however, refers to any authority for this expression, which appears to me quaint and unnatural — but if the dread of a paroxysm be at hand I prefer ἤδη on the authority of many parallel passages, as for example — πλησίον δὲ ἤδη τοῦ φρενίζειν ὄντες, Galen, de loc. affect. iii.; ἐνστάντος δὲ ἤδη τοῦ συμπτώματος, P. ae. iii. 5, in the chapter on epilepsy. Ermerins very properly restores it, in another passage of our author, where ἥδε had been substituted for it (Sympt. diut. morb   ... 9). Indeed ἤδη, in such cases, occurs frequently in the works of our author.  Moreover, in the margin of the celebrated Reiske's copy of Henisch's edition, there is found this emendation — ἤδη δέος. See G. Dindorf's Appendix to Kuhn's edition. The Latin translation of Crassus would agree very well with the reading I propose; while it is unsuitable to the text when δέος is admitted: Quum vero accessio appropinquat.  ᾖ τοῦ παροξυσμοῦ, κύκλῳ μαρμαρυγαὶ πρὸ τῆς ὄψιος πορφυρέων ἢ