Note 73 — FIRST SECTION.
Reading edition
Strabo, Geogr. pp. 1027, 1037. μηδὲ γὰρ νόσους εἶναι πολλὰς διὰ τὴν λιτότητα τῆς διαίτης καὶ τὴν ἀοινίαν. (nor yet are their diseases many, owing to their plainness of living and abstinence from wine). Comp. Ctesias, Indic. 15. Lucian, Macrob. ch. 4. Diodorus Siculus, Bk. II. ch. 40. Pliny, Histor. Nat. Bk. XVII. ch. 2.