{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg002.local001","title":"De optima doctrina","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":"Lipsiae","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":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxpp8j?urlappend=%3Bseq=315%3Bownerid=27021597764275188-323","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De optima doctrina. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Lipsiae, Knobloch, 1821. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"Τὴν εἰς ἑκάτερα ἐπιχείρησιν ἀρίστην εἶναι διδασκαλίαν ὁ Φαβωρῖνος φησίν. ὀνομάζουσι δ’ οὕτως οἱ Ἀκαδημιακοὶ, καθ’ ἣν τὴν ἀντικειμένην προσαγορεύουσι. οἱ μὲν οὖν παλαιότεροι τελευτᾷν αὐτὴν εἰς ἐποχὴν ὑπολαμβάνουσι, ἐποχὴν καλοῦντες τὴν, ὡς ἂν εἴποι τὶς, ἀοριστίαν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ περὶ μηδενὸς πράγματος ὁρίσασθαι, μηδὲ ἀποφήνασθαι βεβαίως. οἱ νεώτεροι δὲ, οὐ γὰρ μόνος ὁ Φαβωρῖνος, ἐνίοτε μὲν εἰς τοσοῦτον προάγουσι τὴν ἐποχὴν, ὡς μηδὲ τὸν ἥλιον ὁμολογεῖν εἶναι καταληπτόν· ἐνίοτε δὲ εἰς τοσοῦτον τὴν γνῶσιν, ὡς καὶ τοῖς μαθηταῖς ἐπιτρέπειν αὐτὴν, ἄνευ τοῦ διδαχθῆναι πρότερον ἐπιστημονικὸν κριτήριον. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἄλλο τί ἐστιν, ὃ Φαβωρῖνος εἴρηκεν ἐν τῷ περὶ τῆς Ἀκαδημιακῆς διαθέσεως, ὃ Πλούταρχος ἐπιγέγραπται. λέγει δὲ αὐτὸ ἐν τῷ πρὸς Ἐπίκτητον, ἐν ᾧ δήπουθεν ἐστὶν Ὀνήσιμος ὁ Πλουτάρχου δοῦλος Ἐπικτήτῳ διαλεγόμενος. καὶ μέντοι κᾀν τῷ μετὰ ταῦτα γραφέντι βιβλίῳ Ἀλκιβιάδη καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους τοὺς…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΙΑΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg002.local001/#tlg0057-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg002.local001/#tlg0057-tlg002-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg002.local001/#tlg0057-tlg002-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg002.local001/#tlg0057-tlg002-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg002.local001/#tlg0057-tlg002-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}