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33These were the acts of madness done by Cambyses towards those of his own family, whether the madness was produced really on account of Apis or from some other cause, as many ills are wont to seize upon men; for it is said moreover that Cambyses had from his birth a certain grievous malady, that which is called by some the "sacred" disease:[26] and it was certainly nothing strange that when the body was suffering from a grievous malady, the mind should not be sound either.
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Notes
[26] Epilepsy or something similar.