Re: Black bile
Dear Colleague, It is far from certain that the source which I just found thanks to GOOGLE is the best one, but it is by a Spanish scholar, Isidore of Sevilla, author of an early etymological dictionary (cf. attachment). The latin text looked so inviting that I could not help but had to translate it immediately despite the fact that neither my Latin nor my English are perfect. It gave me the pleasure to start the New Year with something meaningful. I could not find a definition of melancholy in Theodor Beck's bilingual edition of Hippocrates texts (Jena, Eugen Diederichs, 1907). So I should appreciate to get some input from colleagues with a more solid background.