THEMES

On ἐπιλαλεία sympathy/the act of speaking upon

1. An ornamental capital Q decorated with vines and foliage.Although the explanation of ἐπιλαλεία sympathy seems to pertain more to physicians than to physicists:
2. We, however, judge that this question, whether nature is healed by the treatment of the weapon alone or not, is a physical one.
3. For it is asked concerning a certain act of a natural movable object;
4. Which it is the physicist’s duty to contemplate.
5. For its subject is nature.
6. Which they define as a principle of motion and rest by itself, and internally.
7. So that if motion is denied, nature is denied.
8. The authority of the philosopher also works for us:
9. Which deservedly ought to have weight in such a matter.
10. However, this is not the physician’s proper domain.
11. Since his entire action is devoted to the service of nature.
12. Designed to assist it, or to bring about a cure.
13. Which is accomplished by diet, pharmaceuticals, and surgery.