{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg020.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg020.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg020.local001","title":"De utilitate respirationis","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":"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=480","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De utilitate respirationis. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1822. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg020.local001","excerpt":"Τίς ἡ τῆς ἀναπνοῆς χρεία; ὅτι γὰρ οὐχ ἡ τυχοῦσα, φανερὸν ἐκ τοῦ μηδὲ βραχύτατον ἡμᾶς χρόνον ἀρκεῖν δύνασθαι, ἀπολλυμένης αὐτῆς. ᾧ καὶ δῆλον, ὅτι πρὸς οὐδεμίαν τῶν κατὰ μέρος ἐνεργειῶν, ἀλλ’ εἰς αὐτὴν τὴν ζωὴν διαφέρει. ὥσπερ γὰρ, ὅσα γέγονε πρὸς τὸ βαδίζειν, τούτων στερηθέντες εἰς τὸ βαδίζειν βλαπτόμεθα, καὶ ὅσα πρὸς τὸ βλέπειν χρήσιμα, τούτων στερηθέντες οὐ βλέπομεν, οὕτως, ὅσα πρὸς τὸ ζῇν ἀναγκαῖα, τούτων στερηθέντες ἀποθνήσκομεν. τί ποτε οὖν τηλικοῦτόν ἐστι τὸ παρὰ τῆς ἀναπνοῆς ἡμῖν χρηστόν; ἆρά γε τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῆς ἐστι γένεσις, ὡς Ἀσκληπιάδης φησίν; ἢ γένεσις μὲν οὐχὶ, ῥῶσις δέ τις, ὡς τοῦ Νικάρχου Πραξαγόρας; ἢ τῆς ἐμφύτου θερμασίας ἀνάψυξίς τις, ὡς Φιλιστίων τε καὶ Διοκλῆς ἔλεγον; ἢ καὶ θρέψις καὶ ἔμψυξις, ὡς Ἱπποκράτης; ἢ τούτων μὲν οὐδὲν, ἐπιπληρώσεως δὲ ἕνεκεν ἀρτηριῶν ἀναπνέομεν, ὡς Ἐρασίστρατος οἴεται; σχεδὸν γὰρ τοσαῦται γεγόνασιν αἱρέσεις περὶ χρείας ἀναπνοῆς, εἰ καί τινες…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΧΡΕΙΑΣ ΑΝΑΠΝΟΗΣ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg020.local001/#tlg0057-tlg020-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg020.local001/#tlg0057-tlg020-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg020.local001/#tlg0057-tlg020-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg020.local001/#tlg0057-tlg020-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg020.local001/#tlg0057-tlg020-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg020.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg020.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg020/local001.json.gz"}}