Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49.1 · 2.49.1

The adjective anosos is nosos, "sickness," with the negative prefix a-, so the year is "sickness-free," and the phrase es tas allas astheneias narrows it to every other kind of weakness. Thucydides rests the claim on agreement, hōs hōmologeito, "as it was agreed," and does not vouch for it himself. The superlative ek pantōn malista, literally "most of all out of all," sets this year against every other year.

The second sentence says that earlier ailments did not stay separate. The verb apekrithē is a passive of apokrinō, "to separate off," and here it means that each case was sorted out into one outcome, es touto panta, "into this, all of them." The healthy year and the patients who merged into the new disease together make the sickness look like a single event with no rivals.

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