Cur ergo carmini potius quam morbo attribuatur eius ruina? An evenire non potuit ut forte praesente me idem pateretur, quod saepe alias multis praesentibus? Quod si magnum putarem caducum deicere, quid opus carmine fuit, cum incensus gagates lapis, ut apud physicos lego, pulchre et facile hunc morbum exploret, cuius odore etiam in venaliciis vulgo sanitatem aut morbum venalium experiantur?
Why then is his collapse to be ascribed to a spell rather than to disease? Could it not happen by coincidence that I was there when he had the same fit as often elsewhere with many people present? But if I thought it important to prostrate an epileptic, why did I need a spell? For when jet-stone is heated, according to scientists I have read, it detects this disease excellently and easily. In the slave markets too they use its smell to test whether a slave on sale is healthy or diseased.
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