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? xcvii.] THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OF ST. LUKE. 283<br />

irXripiiXTSWQ xpovovy aWa ivdvg airoppixpai ttoOh to Xvttovv.<br />

Gralen. Comp. Med. viii. 3 (xiii. 146) : oAAa koL Trjv yaaripa<br />

§i' tiTOviav ov Swafiivriv (f)ip£iv to jSapog tCov acr'nov, airoppirrTHv<br />

avTo. ttots fitv elg to kutcj pipog. Galen. Comp. Med.<br />

viii. 8 (xiii. 162) : ttoih aTop,a\^LKoXg koI airoppiirTOvaL Trjv<br />

Tpo^ijv. Gralen. Comp. Med. iii. 2 (xiii. 586) : cnrippnpa to.<br />

ptv tTriKeipevOf KaravrX/jcrac 8' civtov eXaiio.<br />

piTTTHv : see § 2. Gralen uses piiTTHv in the same way as<br />

St. Luke does cnroppiirTuv—of<br />

persons plunging into a bath<br />

of cold water :<br />

see last quotation under KoXvpfBav.<br />

* KoXvp(3av, peculiar to St. Luke, in classical Greek signified<br />

"to dive," not "to swim." It would seem, however,<br />

to have been used in the latter sense in medical language.<br />

Galen at least so uses it when he has occasion to speak of<br />

invalids taking exercise in a swimming bath, e.g. Galen.<br />

Meth. Med. xiv. 15 (x. 996) : tovtI yap to vdwp kcu<br />

ToXg vdepiixxn koI Tolg aXXoig ol^aXioig iinTiideiov botiv,<br />

la)(yp(l)g ^rjpalvov' waavTwg St S?) koI To7g iroXvaapKoig koL<br />

paXicrra oTav avToiig avayKa(!lri Tig Iv avTio<br />

KoXvp(iqv o^vTaTat<br />

KCU Xovtrapivovg.—Galen. Diagn. ex Insomn. (vi. 834) : Tivlg<br />

Si Idpovv KpiTiKoJg liiiXXovTig<br />

Xov^aOai koi KoXvpfBav ido^av ev<br />

OippCjv<br />

udaTijjv Si^apevaig.<br />

The swimming bath was called KoXvp(3r}9pa : Galen.<br />

Meth. Med. xi. 20 (x. 806), &c. In the following quotation<br />

piTTTsiv is employed similarly to cnroppiirTeiv in St. Luke.<br />

Galen. Meth. Med. xi. 9 (x. 759) : el Si Kal evaapKog a»j jcai<br />

Tj KaTacTTaaig Oeppri koX ^rjpa, Kav (ig KoXvpi5i]9pav avTOV<br />

ip(5aXyjg \pv\pa.v, ov /3Xa/3/j(7fra£. Kara top toiovtov yovv<br />

Kaipov ol pi\pavT£g (T^ac avTOvg elg vSwp i//y^j0ov 'iSpwaav re<br />

TTuvTwg avTiKa Kcti, &C.

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