{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg003.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg003.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg003.local001","title":"Quod optimus medicus sit quoque philosophus","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":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxpp8j?urlappend=%3Bseq=327%3Bownerid=27021597764275188-335","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. Quod optimus medicus sit quoque philosophus. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1821. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg003.local001","excerpt":"Οἷόν τι πεπόνθασιν οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν ἀθλητῶν, ἐπιθυμοῦντες μὲν ὀλυμπιονῖκαι γενέσθαι, μηδὲν δὲ πράττειν, ὡς τούτου τυχεῖν, ἐπιτηδεύοντες, τοιοῦτόν τι καὶ τοῖς πολλοῖς τῶν ἰατρῶν συμβέβηκεν. ἐπαινοῦσι μὲν γὰρ Ἱπποκράτην, καὶ πρῶτον ἁπάντων ἡγοῦνται, γενέσθαι δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐν ὁμοίοις ἐκείνῳ, πάντα μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦτο πράττουσι. ὁ μὲν γὰρ οὐ μικρὰν μοῖραν εἰς ἰατρικήν φησι συμβάλλεσθαι τὴν ἀστρονομίαν, καὶ δηλονότι τὴν ταύτης ἡγουμένην ἐξ ἀνάγκης γεωμετρίαν. οἱ δ’ οὐ μόνον αὐτοὶ μετέρχονται τούτων οὐδέτερον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς μετιοῦσι μέμφονται. καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ φύσιν σώματος, ὁ μὲν ἀκριβῶς ἀξιοῖ γιγνώσκειν, ἀρχὴν εἶναι φάσκων αὐτὴν τοῦ κατ’ ἰατρικὴν λόγου παντός. οἱ δ’ οὕτω καὶ περὶ τούτων σπουδάζουσι, ὡς οὐ μόνον ἑκάστου τῶν μορίων οὐσίαν ἢ πλοκὴν, ἢ διάπλασιν, ἢ μέγεθος, ἢ τὴν πρὸς τὰ παρακείμενα κοινωνίαν, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τὴν θέσιν ἐπίστανται. καὶ μέν γε ὡς ἐκ τοῦ μὴ γιγνώσκειν κατ’ εἴδη τε καὶ γένη…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΟΤΙ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΙΑΤΡΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg003.local001/#tlg0057-tlg003-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg003.local001/#tlg0057-tlg003-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg003.local001/#tlg0057-tlg003-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg003.local001/#tlg0057-tlg003-local001-4"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg003.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg003.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg003/local001.json.gz"}}