17.  She was sick in body, and dangerously ill of an extraordinary and malignant disease, her whole frame was incessantly fevered, her blood at one time agitated and boiling, then curdling with coma, incredible pallor, and paralysis of mind and limbs:  and this not at long intervals, but sometimes very frequently.  Its virulence seemed beyond human aid; the skill of physicians, who carefully examined the case, both singly and in consultation, was of no avail; nor the tears of her parents, which often have great power, nor public supplications and intercessions, in which all the people joined as earnestly as if for their own preservation:  for her safety was the safety of all, as, on the contrary, her suffering and sickness was a common misfortune.

ΙΖʹ. Ἔκαμνεν αὐτῇ τὸ σῶμα, καὶ διέκειτο πονήρως, καὶ ἡ νόσος ἦν τῶν ἀήθων καὶ ἀλλοκότων: πύρωσις μὲν ἀθρόα παντὸς τοῦ σώματος, καὶ οἷον βρασμός τις, καὶ ζέσις αἵματος, εἶτα πῆξις τούτου, καὶ νάρκη, καὶ ὠχρίασις ἄπιστος, καὶ νοῦ καὶ μελῶν παράλυσις: καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐκ μακρῶν τῶν διαστημάτων, ἀλλ' ἦν ὅτε καὶ λίαν συνεχῶς: καὶ τὸ κακὸν οὐκ ἀνθρώπινον ἐνομίζετο, καὶ οὔτε ἰατρῶν ἤρκουν τέχναι λίαν ἐπιμελῶς διασκεπτομένων περὶ τοῦ πάθους, καὶ καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἑκάστου, καὶ σὺν ἀλλήλοις, οὔτε γονέων δάκρυα, πολλὰ πολλάκις δεδυνημένα, οὔτε πάνδημοι λιταὶ καὶ ἱκεσίαι, ἃς, ὡς ὑπὲρ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ σωτηρίας ἕκαστος, ἐποιοῦντο πᾶς ὁ λαός: καὶ γὰρ ἦν ἅπασι σωτηρία τὸ ἐκείνην σώζεσθαι, ὥσπερ τοὐναντίον, πάθος κοινὸν τὸ τῇ ἀῤῥωστίᾳ κακοπαθεῖν.