{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg001.local001","title":"Adhortatio ad artes addiscendas","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Knobloch","place":"Leipzig","date":"1821","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Digital Editor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxpp8j?urlappend=%3Bseq=274%3Bownerid=27021597764275760-278","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. Adhortatio ad artes addiscendas. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1821. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Εἰ μὲν μηδόλως λόγου μέτεστι τοῖς ἀλόγοις ὀνομαζομένοις ζώοις, ἄδηλόν ἐστι. ἴσως γὰρ εἰ καὶ μὴ τοῦ κατὰ τὴν φωνὴν, ὃν καὶ προφορικὸν ὀνομάζουσιν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ γε κατὰ τὴν ψυχὴν, ὃν ἐνδιάθετον καλοῦσι, μετέχει πάντα, τὰ μὲν μᾶλλον, τὰ δὲ ἦττον. Ὅτι μέντοι πλεῖστον ὅσον αὐτῶν διενηνόχασιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, πρόδηλον ἡμῖν ἐστιν, ὁρῶσι τό τε πλῆθος τῶν τεχνῶν, ὧν μεταχειρίζεται τὸ ζῶον τοῦτο, καὶ ὅτι μόνος ἄνθρωπος ἐπιστήμης ἐπιδεκτικὸς, ἣν ἂν ἐθελήσῃ, τέχνην μανθάνει. Τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλα ζῷα σχεδὸν ἄτεχνα πάντ’ ἐστὶ πλὴν ὀλίγων δὴ τινῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς· ἀλλὰ καὶ ταῦτα φύσει μᾶλλον, ἢ προαιρέσει τεχνῶν εὐτύχηκεν. Ὁ δ’ ἄνθρωπος οὔτε τινός τῶν παρ’ ἐκείνοις ἀμελέτητος· ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ὑφαντικὴν ἐμιμήσατο τὰς ἀράχνας, καὶ πλάττει, καθάπερ αἱ μέλισσαι, καὶ τοῦ νεῖν οὐκ ἀνάσκητός ἐστι, καίτοι πεζὸς ὤν· ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν θείων τεχνῶν οὐκ ἀπολείπεται, ζηλῶν μὲν Ἀσκληπιοῦ τέχνην ἰατρικὴν, ζηλῶν δ’ Ἀπόλλωνος αὐτήν γε ταύτην,…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΑΡΑΦΡΑΣΤΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΜΗΝΟΔΟΤΟΥ ΠΡΟΤΡΕΠΤΙΚΟΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΑΣ ΤΕΧΝΑΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/#tlg0057-tlg001-local001-14"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}