{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg010.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg010.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg010.local001","title":"De naturalibus facultatibus","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":"2","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/chi.17443628?urlappend=%3Bseq=12%3Bownerid=13510798903417072-16","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De naturalibus facultatibus. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1821. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg010.local001","excerpt":"Ἐπειδὴ τὸ μὲν αἰσθάνεσθαί τε καὶ κινεῖσθαι κατὰ προαίρεσιν ἴδια τῶν ζώων ἐστὶ, τὸ δ’ αὐξάνεσθαί τε καὶ τρέφεσθαι κοινὰ καὶ τοῖς φυτοῖς, εἴη ἂν τὰ μὲν πρότερα τῆς ψυχῆς, τὰ δὲ δεύτερα τῆς φύσεως ἔργα. εἰ δέ τις καὶ τοῖς φυτοῖς ψυχῆς μεταδίδωσι, καὶ διαιρούμενος αὐτὰς, ὀνομάζει φυτικὴν μὲν ταύτην, αἰσθητικὴν δὲ τὴν ἑτέραν, λέγει μὲν οὐδ’ οὗτος ἄλλα, τῇ λέξει δ’ οὐ πάνυ τῇ συνήθει χρῆται. ἀλλ’ ἡμεῖς γε μεγίστην λέξεως ἀρετὴν σαφήνειαν εἷναι πεπεισμένοι, καὶ ταύτην εἰδότες ὑπ’ οὐδενὸς οὕτως ὡς ὑπὸ τῶν ἀήθων ὀνομάτων διαφθειρομένην, ὡς τοῖς πολλοῖς ἔθος, οὕτως ὀνομάζοντες, ὑπὸ μὲν ψυχῆς τε ἅμα καὶ φύσεως τὰ ζῶα διοικεῖσθαί φαμεν, ὑπὸ δὲ φύσεως μόνης τὰ φυτά· καὶ τό γ’ αὐξάνεσθαί τε καὶ τρέφεσθαι φύσεως ἔργα φαμὲν, οὐ ψυχῆς. Καὶ ζητήσομεν κατὰ τόνδε τὸν λόγον, ὑπὸ τίνων γίνεται δυνάμεων αὐτά γε ταῦτα, καὶ εἰ δή τι ἄλλο φύσεως ἔργον ἐστίν. ἀλλὰ πρότερόν γε διελέσθαι τε χρὴ καὶ μηνῦσαι σαφῶς…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg010.local001/#tlg0057-tlg010-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg010.local001/#tlg0057-tlg010-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg010.local001/#tlg0057-tlg010-local001-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg010.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg010.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg010/local001.json.gz"}}