{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg015.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg015.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg015.local001","title":"De instrumento odoratus","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":"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://archive.org/stream/hapantaoperaomni02galeuoft#page/856/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De instrumento odoratus. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Lipsiae, Knobloch, 1821. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg015.local001","excerpt":"Ὄσφρησιν ὀνομάζουσιν οἱ Ἕλληνες οὐ μόνον τὴν διάγνωσιν τῶν ὀσμῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν δύναμιν, ἧς τοῦτο ἔργον ἐστίν· ὥσπερ γε καὶ τὴν γεῦσιν οὐ τὴν διάγνωσιν μόνον τῶν γευστῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν δύναμιν αὐτῶν· καὶ κατ’ ἄμφω δὲ τὰ σημαινόμενα τὸ τῆς ὀσφρήσεως ὄργανον ἓν ἂν εἶναι λέγοιτο, δι’ οὗ ποιεῖται τῶν ἰδίων αἰσθητῶν τὴν διάγνωσιν ἡ δύναμις, ἀνάλογον ὀφθαλμῷ καὶ γλώττῃ. δοκεῖ δὲ εἶναι τοῦτο κατὰ τὴν πρώτην ἐπιβολὴν τῆς διανοίας ἡ ῥίς. ἐν γοῦν τῷ διὰ τοῦ στόματος εἰσπνεῖν, στεγνώσαντες αὐτὴν ὁπωσοῦν, οὐδενὸς τῶν ὀσφρητῶν ἀντιλαμβανόμεθα, καθάπερ γε κᾀπειδὰν ἀνοίξαντες τοὺς μυκτῆρας εἰσπνέωμεν, εὐθέως αἰσθανόμεθα. πότερον οὖν ὁ ὑπαλείφων ἔνδοθεν ἑκάτερον τῶν κατὰ τὴν ῥῖνα πόρων ὑμὴν ἢ χιτὼν (ἀμφοτέρως γὰρ ὀνομάζουσιν αὐτὸν) αἰσθάνεται τῶν ὀσφρητῶν, οὐ γὰρ δὴ τό γε ὀστοῦν αὐτὸ τῆς ῥινὸς ἤ τι τῶν ἔνδον τοῦδε τῶν ὀσμῶν ἐστιν ὄργανον, ἄξιον ἐπισκέψεως. ἂν γοῦν πληρώσῃς τοὺς πόρους εἴτ’ οὖν μύρων τῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΟΣΦΡΗΣΕΩΣ ΟΡΓΑΝΟΥ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg015.local001/#tlg0057-tlg015-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg015.local001/#tlg0057-tlg015-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg015.local001/#tlg0057-tlg015-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg015.local001/#tlg0057-tlg015-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg015.local001/#tlg0057-tlg015-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg015.local001/#tlg0057-tlg015-local001-6"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg015.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg015.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg015/local001.json.gz"}}