{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg009.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg009.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg009.local001","title":"De temperamentis","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=783%3Bownerid=27021597764275188-785","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De temperamentis. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1821. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg009.local001","excerpt":"Ὅτι μὲν οὖν ἐκ θερμοῦ καὶ ψυχροῦ καὶ ξηροῦ καὶ ὑγροῦ τὰ μὲν ζώων σώματα κέκραται, καὶ ὡς οὐκ ἴση πάντων ἐστὶν ἐν τῇ κράσει μοῖρα, παλαιοῖς ἀνδράσιν ἱκανῶς ἀποδέδεικται, φιλοσόφων τε καὶ ἰατρῶν τοῖς ἀρίστοις· εἴρηται δὲ καὶ πρὸς ἡμῶν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν τὰ εἰκότα δι’ ἑτέρου γράμματος, ἐν ᾧ περὶ τῶν καθ’ Ἱπποκράτην στοιχείων ἐσκοπούμεθα. νυνὶ δὲ, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἐφεξῆς ἐκείνῳ, τῶν κράσεων ἁπάσας ἐξευρεῖν τὰς διαφορὰς, ὁπόσαι τέ εἰσι καὶ ὁποῖαι, κατ’ εἴδη τε καὶ γένη διαιρούμενος, ἐν τῷδε τῷ γράμματι δίειμι, τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐξηγήσεως ποιησάμενος. ἐπειδὰν μὲν γὰρ ἐκ θερμοῦ καὶ ψυχροῦ καὶ ξηροῦ καὶ ὑγροῦ κεκρᾶσθαι λέγωσι τὰ σώματα, τῶν ἄκρως τοιούτων ἀκούειν φασὶ χρῆναι, τοῦτ’ ἔστι τῶν στοιχείων αὐτῶν, ἀέρος, καὶ πυρὸς, καὶ ὕδατος, καὶ γῆς. ἐπειδὰν δὲ ζῶον, ἢ φυτὸν, ἢ θερμὸν, ἢ ψυχρὸν, ἢ ξηρὸν, ἢ ὑγρὸν, οὐκέθ’ ὡσαύτως. οὐδὲ γὰρ δύνασθαι ζῶον οὐδὲν οὔτ’ ἄκρως θερμὸν ὑπάρχειν, ὡς πῦρ, οὔτ’…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg009.local001/#tlg0057-tlg009-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg009.local001/#tlg0057-tlg009-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg009.local001/#tlg0057-tlg009-local001-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg009.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg009.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg009/local001.json.gz"}}