§1414.
14.
Ἐντεῦθέν τε ἡ ψλὲψ αὕτη κατέχει τὸν πλεύμονα, καὶ διὰ τῶν λοβῶν τῶν δύο τῶν μεγάλων τῶν ἔσω τετραμμένων ὑπὸ τὰς φρένας ἐπιτέταται τῇ ἀκάνθῃ λευκὴ καὶ νευρώδης, διαπέμπουσα φλέβια διὰ τοῦ ἄλλου σώματος πεπυκνωμένου, ἔντονα δὲ, διά τε τῶν σφονδύλων πυκνοῖσι φλεβίοισιν ἐς τὸν νωτιαῖον μυελὸν ἐγκισσεύεται.
And from there, this vessel occupies the lung, and through the two large lobes turned inward, it is stretched over the spine under the diaphragm, white and sinewy, sending out small vessels through the rest of the thickened body, which are tense, and through the vertebrae with dense small vessels it is entwined like ivy into the spinal cord.
Καὶ αἱ μὲν ἄλλαι φλέβες ἐν τῷ σώματι τεταμέναι, ἐκ πάντων τῶν μερῶν συντείνουσαι ἐς τὴν ἄκανθαν, τὸ λεπτότατον καὶ εἰλικρινέστατον ἑκάστη ξυνάγουσα, ἐνταῦθ’ ἐξερεύγεται.
And the other vessels stretched in the body, extending from all parts to the spine, each collecting the thinnest and purest, discharge there.
Αὕτη δὲ ἡ ἐπιτεταμένη διὰ τῶν καθειμένων πλεκτανέων ἐς ταὐτὸ ξυνάγει· ἐντεῦθεν δὲ καὶ ἐς τοὺς νεφροὺς ἀπεῤῥίζωται παρὰ τὴν νόθον πλευρὴν λεπτῇσι καὶ ἰνώδεσι φλεψὶ, καὶ τὸ ἐντεῦθεν συντείνουσα ξυμπεπύκνωται, ἔπειτα καὶ νενεύρωται πρὸς τὸν ἀρχὸν, πιέσασά τε τοὺς ξυναγωγέας ἐμπέφυκεν αὐτῷ· τήν τε κύστιν καὶ τοὺς ὄρχιὰς καὶ τοὺς παραστάτας ἐῤῥίζωκε πολυπλόκοισι λεπτῇσι τε καὶ στερεῇσι καὶ ἰνώδεσι φλεψίν.
But this stretched one, through the descending networks, collects them into the same place; and from there it is also rooted into the kidneys along the false rib by thin and fibrous vessels, and extending from there it is compacted, and then it is also sinewy toward the rectum, and having pressed the sphincters it is grown into it; and it has rooted the bladder, the testicles, and the epididymides with complex, thin, hard, and fibrous vessels.
§1515.
15.
Ἐντεῦθεν αὐτῆς τὸ παχύτατον καὶ ἰθύτατον ἀνάπαλιν τραπὲν, προσκεκαύληκεν ὅπερ ἐστὶν αἰδοῖον· ἐν δὲ τῇ ἀνακάμψει ἐνῆρται ἐς τὰ αὐτὰ ταῦτα, καὶ διὰ τοῦ κτενὸς ἄνω ὑπὸ τὸ δέρμα τῆς γαστρὸς ἐκ τῆς φλεβὸς αὐτέης ὡρμήκασι πρὸς τὰς κάτω φερούσας, αἳ ἐς ἀλλήλας ἐποχετεύονται· διαπεφύκασι δὲ καὶ διὰ τοῦ αἰδοίου φλέβες παχεῖαι καὶ λεπταὶ καὶ πυκναὶ καὶ καμπύλαι.
From there, its thickest and straightest part, turned backward, has shot up like a stalk into what is the penis; and in the bending back it is fastened into these same parts, and through the pubic bone upward under the skin of the belly from this very vessel they have started toward those carrying downward, which channel into one another; and through the penis there also grow through thick, thin, dense, and curved vessels.
Τῇσι δὲ θηλείῃσιν αὐτὴ ξυντείνει ἐς τὰς μήτρας, ἐς τὴν κύστιν καὶ ἐς τὴν οὐρήθρην· ἐντεῦθεν δὲ ἰθυπόρηκε, καὶ τῇσι γυναιξὶ μὲν περὶ τὰς μήτρας ἤρτηται, τοῖσι δὲ ἄῤῥεσι περὶ τοὺς ὄρχιας ἐσπείρωται.
In females, this extends into the uterus, the bladder, and the urethra; and from there it goes straight, and in women it is suspended around the uterus, while in males it is coiled around the testicles.
Διὰ ταύτην τὴν φύσιν αὐτὴ ἡ φλὲψ καὶ τὰ γόνιμα πλεῖστα ξυλλαμβάνει· ἀπὸ γὰρ τῶν πλείστων καὶ εἰλικρινεστάτων μερῶν τρεφομένη, ὀλίγαιμός τε οὖσα καὶ κοίλη καὶ νευρόπαχυς καὶ πνευματώδης, ἐντεινομένη τε ὑπὸ τοῦ αἰδοίου, τὰ καθειμένα ἐς τὴν ἄκανθαν φλέβια βιάζεται, τὰ δὲ βιαζόμενα ὥσπερ σικύη ἐς ἑωυτὰ πάντα ἐκδιδοῖ ἐς τὴν ἄνω φλέβα· συλλείβεται δὲ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἄλλων μελῶν τοῦ σώματος ἐς ταύτην· τὸ δὲ πλεῖστον, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, ἀπὸ τοῦ μυελοῦ συναλίζεται.
Because of this nature, this vessel itself also receives most of the generative seed; for being nourished from most of the purest parts, being low in blood, hollow, thick-sinewed, and full of breath, and being stretched by the penis, it constricts the small vessels descending to the spine, and those being constricted, like a cupping-glass, discharge everything in themselves into the upper vessel; and it flows together also from the other members of the body into this; but most of it, as has been said, is gathered from the spinal cord.
Ἡ δὲ ἡδονὴ τουτέῳ παραγίνεται τῆς φλεβὸς ταύτης πληρευμένης τῆς γονῆς· εἰωθυίης οὖν τὸν ἄλλον χρόνον ὑφαίμου τε εἶναι καὶ πνευματώδεος πληρευμένης τε καὶ θερμαινομένης, καὶ ξυῤῥέοντος κάτω τοῦ σπέρματος, περισφίγγει τὰ ἐν ἑωυτῇ.
And pleasure arises in him when this vessel is filled with the seed; since it is accustomed at other times to be low in blood and full of breath, when it is filled and heated, and the sperm flows down together, it constricts the things in itself.
Τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα τὸ ἐνεὸν καὶ ἡ παροῦσα βίη καὶ ἡ θερμότης καὶ τῶν φλεβίων πανταχόθεν ἡ ξυντονίη γαργαλισμὸν ἐμποιέει.
The breath within, the present force, the heat, and the tension of the small vessels from all sides produce a tickling sensation.
§1616.
16.
Ἐκείνη δὲ ἀφ’ ἑωυτῆς διέβλαστε, διά τε τοῦ μεταφρένου καὶ τῆς σφαγῆς παρὰ τὴν ἄκανθαν νεμομένη, πολλοῖσι φλεβίοισι τὰς πλευρὰς διαπέπλοχε· καὶ τοὺς σφονδύλους διὰ τῶν σαρκῶν ἐπηλλαγμένως ξυμπεπύκνωκεν, ὥστε τρόφιμός τε καὶ ἔναιμος εἶναι.
That other vessel has branched off from itself, and being distributed along the spine through the back and the throat, it has interwoven the ribs with many small vessels; and it has compacted the vertebrae through the flesh in an alternating manner, so as to be nourishing and full of blood.
Αὐτὴ δὲ παρὰ τὸν γλουτὸν ἴεται, διὰ τοῦ μυὸς; ὑπὸ τῷ μηρῷ ὑποβρυχίη· πρὸς δὲ τοῦ γλουτοῦ τῇ κοτυλίδι τοῦ μηροῦ παρὰ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐστετρύπηκε φλεβὶ, ἥπερ ἀναπνοὴν τῷ μηρῷ παρέχει· καὶ περᾷ τὸν μηρὸν παρὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸ γόνυ καμπήν· ἑτέρην δὲ παρὰ τὸν βουβῶνα καθῆκε πυκινόῤῥιζον καὶ δυστράπελον.
And it goes along the hip, hidden deep through the muscle under the thigh; and near the socket of the hip, along the head of the thigh, it is perforated with a vessel which provides respiration to the thigh; and it passes through the thigh along the bend toward the knee; and another one it has sent down along the groin, thickly rooted and difficult to bend.
Ἡ δὲ διὰ τοῦ μυὸς τείνουσα περί τε τὸ γόνυ ἐσπείρωται, καὶ διὰ τοῦ ὀστέου τοῦ κνημιαίου ἄκρου σεσυρίγγωκε φλέβα, ἣ τρέφει τὸν μυελὸν, καὶ ἐξοχετεύεται διὰ τοῦ νερτάτου τοῦ κνημιαίου, παρὰ τὴν ἔνδεσιν τοῦ ποδός.
And the one stretching through the muscle is coiled around the knee, and through the bone of the end of the shin it has formed a tube for a vessel which nourishes the marrow, and is channeled off through the lowest part of the shin, along the binding of the foot.
Αὐτὴ δὲ διὰ τῆς ἐπιγουνίδος ἐς τὸ ἐντὸς διὰ τῆς κνήμης τοῦ μυὸς βρυχίη τέταται, καὶ ἐμπέπλοχε διὰ τοῦ σφυροῦ ἐντὸς παχέη καὶ ἔναιμος, καὶ ἐνταῦθα περὶ τὸ σφυρὸν καὶ τὸν τένοντα δυσκρίτους φλέβας μεμήρυκεν.
And it itself is stretched through the kneecap into the inner part, hidden deep through the muscle of the shin, and has interwoven through the inner ankle, being thick and full of blood, and there around the ankle and the tendon it has wound indistinguishable vessels.