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The Sacred Disease

"If the sufferer acts like a goat, and if he roars, or has convulsions involving the right side, they say the Mother of the Gods is responsible. If he utters a higher-pitched and louder cry, they say he is like a horse and blame Poseidon. If the sufferer should be incontinent of feces, as sometimes happens under the stress of an attack, Enodia is the name..."
(SD.4, trans. Chadwick and Mann)


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