{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg008.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg008.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg008.local001","title":"De elementis ex Hippocrate","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=686%3Bownerid=27021597764275760-688","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De elementis ex Hippocrate. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1821. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg008.local001","excerpt":"Ἐπειδὴ τὸ στοιχεῖον ἐλάχιστόν ἐστι μόριον, οὗπερ ἂν ᾖ στοιχεῖον, ἐλάχιστον δὲ οὐ ταὐτὸν αἰσθήσει τε φαίνεται καὶ ὄντως ἐστί· πολλὰ γὰρ ὑπὸ σμικρότητος ἐκφεύγει τὴν αἴσθησιν· εὔδηλον, ὡς οὐκ ἂν εἴη τῶν φύσει τε καὶ ὄντως ἑκάστου πράγματος στοιχείων ἡ αἴσθησις κριτήριον. εἰ γοῦν ἐθελήσεις ἰὸν καὶ καδμίαν, καὶ λιθάργυρον, καὶ μίσυ, τρίψας ἀκριβῶς ὁμοῦ πάντα, καὶ χνοώδη ποιήσας, ἐπιτρέπειν αἰσθήσει τὴν διάγνωσιν, ἓν εἶναί σοι τὰ πάντα δόξει. κᾂν εἰ μὴ τέτταρα δὲ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πολλῷ πλείω κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἀναμίξεις ἀλλήλοις, ἓν εἶναί σοι καὶ ταῦτα φανεῖται πάντα, καί τοί γε οὐχ ἓν ὄντα. ταῦτ’ ἄρα καὶ Ἱπποκράτης ἐπισκεπτόμενος ἀνθρώπου φύσεως στοιχεῖα, τῶν μὲν, ὡς πρὸς τὴν αἴσθησιν ἁπλουστάτων τε καὶ πρώτων, καταφρονεῖ, τὰ δὲ ὄντως τε καὶ φύσει ζητεῖ. καὶ γὰρ δὴ καὶ ἡ χρεία τούτων εἰς τὰς ἰάσεις οὐδὲν ἧττόν ἐστι τῶν πρὸς τὴν αἴσθησιν, ὡς ἐν ἑτέροις ἐπιδέδεικται. καὶ φαίνεσθαι μὲν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg008.local001/#tlg0057-tlg008-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg008.local001/#tlg0057-tlg008-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg008.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg008.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg008/local001.json.gz"}}