{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg001.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg001.local002","title":"Protrepticus","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Georg Kaibel"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Protreptici quae supersunt","edition":null,"publisher":"Weidmann","place":"Berlin","date":"1894","volume":"1-22","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":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://books.google.com/books?id=mnYIAAAAIAAJ","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. Protrepticus. ed. Georg Kaibel. Claudii Galeni Protreptici quae supersunt, Berlin, Weidmann, 1894. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg001.local002","excerpt":"Εἰ μὲν μηδ’ ὅλως λόγου μέτεστι τοῖς ἀλόγοις ὀνομαζομένοις ζῴοις ἄδηλόν ἐστιν. ἴσως γὰρ εἰ καὶ μὴ τοῦ κατὰ τὴν φωνήν, ὃν καὶ προφορικὸν ὀνομάζουσιν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ γε 〈κατὰ〉 τὴν ψυχήν, ὃν ἐνδιάθετον καλοῦσι, μετέχει πάντα, τὰ μὲν μᾶλλον τὰ δ’ ἧττον. ὅτι μέντοι πλεῖστον ὅσον αὐτῶν διενηνόχασιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, πρόδηλον ἡμῖν ἐστιν ὁρῶσι τό τε πλῆθος τῶν τεχνῶν ὧν μεταχειρίζεται τὸ ζῷον τοῦτο καὶ ὅτι μόνος ἅνθρωπος ἐπιστήμης ἐπιδεκτικὸς ἣν ἂν ἐθελήσῃ τέχνην μανθάνει. τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλα ζῷα σχεδὸν ἄτεχνα πάντ’ ἐστι πλὴν ὀλίγων δή τινων ἐν ὀλίγοις· ἀλλὰ καὶ ταῦτα φύσει μᾶλλον ἢ προαιρέσει τεχνῶν εὐτύχηκεν· ὁ δ’ ἄνθρωπος οὔτε τινὸς τῶν παρ’ ἐκείνοις ἀμελέτητος, 〈ὃς〉 [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 τὴν Ἀσκληπιοῦ τέχνην ἰατρικήν, ζηλῶν δ’ Ἀπόλλωνος αὐτήν τε…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΠΝΟΥ ΠΡΟΤΡΕΠΤΙΚΟΣ ΕΠ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/#tlg0057-tlg001-local002-14"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg001.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg001/local002.json.gz"}}