Can it be so, my son, that thou art brought By mad Distemperature against thy sire, On hearing of the irrevocable doom Passed on thy promised bride?
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
Yet, oft as he hath caught This same Distemperature, I know not how To harbour indignation against him.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
Although there are people who utterly deny any such thing, and say that no man in his right senses ever yet saw any supernatural phantom or apparition, but that children only, and silly women, or men disordered by sickness, in some aberration of the mind or Distemperature of the body, have had empty and extravagant imaginations, whilst the real evil genius, superstition, was in themselves.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh