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Λίβυας. For the healthiness of the Libyans and its alleged cause cf. iv. 187.

οὐ μεταλλάσσουσι. H.'s view is that of his contemporary, Hippocrates; cf. Aph. iii. 1 αἱ μεταβολαὶ τῶν ὡρέων μάλιστα τίκτουσι νοσήματα. For the accuracy of his statement cf. E. B.9 vii. 302 (s. v. Egypt): ‘The climate of Egypt, being remarkably equable, is healthy to those who can bear great heat’: the daily range of temperature in the Libyan desert is 35°, but in Egypt the range is less (Baedeker, p. lx). Even in classical times, consumptive patients were sent to Egypt (cf. Pliny (the younger) Epis. v. 19, who sends his freedman Zosimus).

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