{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg018.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg018.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg018.local001","title":"De motu musculorum","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":"1822","volume":"4","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.11102513?urlappend=%3Bseq=376","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De motu musculorum. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Lipsiae, Knobloch, 1822. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg018.local001","excerpt":"Ὄργανα κινήσεως τῆς καθ’ ὁρμὴν οἱ μύες εἰσὶν, οὕτω δή τι πολὺ πλῆθος ὄντες, ὡς οὐδ’ ἀριθμῆσαι ῥᾴδιον αὐτούς. καὶ γὰρ καὶ συμφύονταί τινες ἀλλήλοις, ὡς δοκεῖν εἷς εἶναι, καί τις εἷς ὢν εἰς πολλοὺς τελευτήσας τένοντας οὐχ εἷς ἔτι μόνος, ἀλλ’ ὅσοι περ οἱ τένοντες εἶναι δοκεῖ. διὰ τοῦτ’ οὖν καὶ ὅτι πολυειδεῖς εἶσι τοῖς σχήμασιν, εἰς ἀνόμοιά τε καταφύονται μόρια, δυσφώρατον ἔχουσι τὸν τῆς κινήσεως τρόπον. εἴη δ’ ἂν οὐ μικρὸν οὐδὲ τὸ κατὰ διαφέροντας τόπους καὶ πολλάκις ἐναντίους ἐμφύεσθαι τοῖς κινουμένοις μορίοις αὐτούς. οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἄνωθεν, οἱ δὲ κάτωθεν, οἱ δ’ ἐκ τοῦ πρόσθεν, ἢ ὄπισθεν, ἢ ἔνθεν ἢ ἔνθεν ἐμβάλλουσιν. ἀλλὰ καὶ τμηθεὶς ἅπας μῦς ἐγκάρσιος μὴ πάνυ λεπτῇ μηδ’ ἐπιπολῆς τῇ τομῇ βλάπτει μέν τινα πάντως τῶν τοῦ μορίου κινήσεων, εἰς ὃ κατεφύετο. τῷ δ’ εἶναι πολυειδεῖς τὰς βλάβας καὶ ταύτῃ δυσφώρατος αὐτῶν ὁ τῆς κινήσεως τρόπος. αὐτίκα τῶν κατὰ σκέλη μυῶν ἄλλοτ’ ἄλλου τμηθέντος, ἢ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg018.local001/#tlg0057-tlg018-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg018.local001/#tlg0057-tlg018-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg018.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg018.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg018/local001.json.gz"}}