{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg017.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg017.local001","title":"De usu partium corporis humani I-XI","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":"1822","volume":"3","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.15597494?urlappend=%3Bseq=12","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De usu partium corporis humani I-XI. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1822. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg017.local001","excerpt":"Ὥσπερ τῶν ζώων ἕκαστον ἓν εἶναι λέγεται τῷ φαίνεσθαι κατά τινα περιγραφὴν ἰδίαν μηδαμῆ τοῖς ἄλλοις ξυνημμένον, οὕτω καὶ τῶν μορίων αὐτοῦ τὸ μὲν ὀφθαλμὸς, τὸ δὲ ῥὶς, τὸ δὲ γλῶττα, τὸ δ’ ἐγκέφαλος ἓν εἶναι λέγεται τῷ φαίνεσθαι περιγραφὴν ἰδίαν ἔχον. εἰ δὲ μὴ συνῆπτο κατά τι τοῖς πέλας, ἀλλὰ πάντως κεχώριστο, τότ’ ἂν οὐδὲ μόριον ἦν ὅλως, ἀλλ’ ἁπλῶς ἕν. ὥσθ’ ὅσα σώματα μήτε πάντη περιγραφὴν ἰδίαν ἔχει, μήτε πάντη συνῆπται πρὸς ἕτερα, μόρια ταῦτα κέκληται. καὶ εἰ τοῦτο, πολλὰ τῶν ζώων ἔσται μόρια, τὰ μὲν μείζω, τὰ δ’ ἐλάττω, τὰ δὲ καὶ παντάπασιν εἰς ἕτερον εἶδος ἄτμητα. Χρεία δ’ αὐτῶν ἁπάντων ἐστὶ τῇ ψυχῇ. τὸ γὰρ σῶμα ταύτης ὄργανον, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πολὺ διενήνοχεν ἀλλήλων τὰ μόρια τῶν ζώων, ὅτι καὶ αἱ ψυχαί. τὰ μὲν γάρ ἐστιν ἄλκιμα, τὰ δὲ δειλὰ, τὰ δ’ ἄγρια, τὰ δ’ ἥμερα, τὰ δ’ οἷον πολιτικά τε καὶ δημιουργικὰ, τὰ δ’ οἷον μονότροπα. πᾶσι δ’ οὖν ἐπιτήδειον τὸ σῶμα τοῖς τῆς ψυχῆς ἤθεσί τε καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-8"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-9"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-10"},{"label":"Book 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-11"},{"label":"Book 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-12"},{"label":"Book 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-13"},{"label":"Book 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-14"},{"label":"Book 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-15"},{"label":"Book 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-16"},{"label":"Book 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/#tlg0057-tlg017-local001-17"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg017.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg017/local001.json.gz"}}