Note (16) — BOOK II.

16. Puffed up as it were by fermentation, &c.) Foesius observes in a note upon lib. ii. prædictor. 31. from whence this context is closely copied, that ἀπόζυμος γαστὴρ, fermentatus venter, is an unusual kind of expression, which makes him suspect the reading should be ὑποξήρους, which he thinks is supported by Galen in his Exegesis, who says that ὑποξήρους περὶ γαστέρων signifies ταπεινοτέρας aut προεσταλμένας, that is dried up, extenuated, contracted. Foesius thinks too, that Celsus by mistake has read λιπαράς for ῥυπαρὰς, fat for sordid. But as this is only conjecture, it is much more natural to suppose, that λιπαρὰς was the true reading, and that ῥυπαρὰς had crept in since the time of Celsus.