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64 THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OF ST. LUKE. [part ii.
He alone of the N. T. writers uses the word ^x"^—Heb.
xii. 19, being a quotation from the LXX. He uses it also
in chap. xxi. 25 :
vx^^^ daXaaartg, on "account of the noise
of the sea," and Acts, ii. 2 : Ik tov ovpavov rixog, " a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind." Now both
aKOT] and iixoQ were used in medical language, but aKO?';
was so strictly confined to the technical meaning " the sense
of hearing," and to " the ears " themselves, that a physician
would scarcely have employed it in the meaning
of a "report"— "fame"— when he had other words to
express the same, vxog was the technical word to signify
sounds in the ears and head, and was also used sometimes
for the voice.
Hippocrates, Morb. Acut. 390, uses both words
together: al ajcoai rixov juecTraj, "the ears are full of sounds."
Hipp. Coac. Progn. 137 : kuX dia rivv ovarwv VX'^^Q diaiaaeiv.
Hipp. Morb. Acut. 406 : koX olcriv '^'^^ ^x*^* ovcltwv Ihttitt-
Tovai. Hipp. Morb. 462 : rrjvticaura 70^0 r\X'^Q tviariv iv r>?
Kt^aXy /SaprjKOEt Se to fxiv ri inrb tov icrojOsv ;/;o0ou koX t'jxow.
Hipp. Morb. 487 : kuI to. te owara t;x*?C TrXi'ipea yivtTai.
Aretaeus, Sign. Morb. Diuturn. 34 : rixoi, j3o/x/3oi ava rriv
Ke(f>aXriv. Aret. Sign. Morb. Diuturn. 38 :
^x^'
lortov koX
/3oju/3ot. Aret. Cur. Acut. Morb. 90 : jSapoc juevtoi etti rJjc
K£(paXrig kol vx^q- Aret. Cur. Acut. Morb. 132 : toSe fxivrot
(dapeog Koi nx^v eoti airia. Aretaeus, too, like St. Luke,
uses ^x*'^ ^^ ^^® noise of the sea. Cur. Acut. Morb. 85
KOL alyiaXwv rixog koi KV/iarwv KTvirog.
It signifies the voice in Dioscor. Mat. Med. iii. 84
i(sBii.TaL Se fXiT o^vfxiXiTOg aQjx6Z,b)v TOLg Trspi apTi]piav,
fxaXiaTa ^l cnroKoireimv lixoig- Dioscor. Mat. Med. v. 25 :
KfJl TOV riX^'^ iVTOVOV Koi AajUTTjOOV OTTOTtAft.