Book 14
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Both the Milesians and Delians invoke Apollo Ulius, as dispensing health and curing diseases; for οὔλεινTo be well. is to be in health, whence οὐλήHence the English weal, the mark of a stripe. a wound healed, and the phrase in Homer,Od. xxiv. 402. οὖλέ τε καὶ μέγα χαῖοͅε, health and good welcome; for Apollo is a healer, and Artemis has her name from making persons ἀοͅτεμέας, or sound. The sun, also, and moon are associated with these deities, since they are the causes of the good qualities of the air; pestilential diseases, also, and sudden death are attributed to these deities.
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Illustrious persons, natives of Miletus, were Thales, one of the seven wise men, the first person who introduced among the Greeks physiology and mathematics; his disciple Anaximander, and Anaximenes the disciple of Anaximander. Besides these, Hecataeus the historian;Coraÿ, who is followed by Groskurd, supposes the words and Cadmus to be here omitted. Kramer considers this correction to be very doubtful; see b. i. c. ii. § 6. and of our time, Aeschines the orator, who was banished for having spoken with two great freedom before Pompey the Great, and died in exile.
