{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg022.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg022.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg022.local001","title":"De foetuum formatione","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=666%3Bownerid=13510798903411997-684","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De foetuum formatione. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1822. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg022.local001","excerpt":"Περὶ τῆς τῶν κυουμένων διαπλάσεως ἐπεχείρησαν μέν τι καὶ φιλόσοφοι γράφειν, μηδεμίαν ἀφορμὴν ὧν λέγουσιν ἐξ ἀνατομῆς περιεχόμενοι. καὶ θαυμαστόν γε οὐδέν ἐστιν ἁμαρτεῖν τῆς ἀληθείας αὐτοὺς, διαφωνῆσαί τε πρὸς ἀλλήλους. ὅπου γὰρ τοῖς ἀνατεμοῦσιν ἐπιμελῶς ἠγνοήθη τινὰ, πολὺ δήπου μᾶλλον εἰκὸς ἦν ἁμαρτεῖν, ὅσοι ταῖς ἑαυτῶν ὑπονοίας ἐπίστευσαν ἄνευ τῶν ἐξ ἀνατομῆς φαινομένων. Ἱπποκράτης δὲ πρῶτος ὧν ἴσμεν ἔγραψέ τι περὶ διαπλάσεως ἐμβρύων ἀληθῶς, οὐ λογικαῖς ὑπονοίαις τὴν ἀκολουθίαν τῆς ζητήσεως ἐπιτρέψας, ἀλλ’ αἰσθηταῖς διαγνώσεσιν, οὐδ’ οὖν οὐδὲ ταύταις ὀλίγαις, ὥσπερ ἔνιοι καθολικὰς ἀποφάσεις ἐκ τῶν ἅπαξ ἢ δὶς ὀφθέντων ποιησάμενοι. καὶ νῦν γοῦν τις ἰατρὸς θεασάμενος ἐκτρωθὲν ἔμβρυον ἡμερῶν τριάκοντα καὶ δυοῖν, ἔχον ἤδη σαφῆ τὴν τῆς διαπλάσεως ὑπογραφὴν, ὡς ἐπὶ πάντων ἐμβρύων οὕτω γιγνόμενον ἀπεφῄνατο, μηδὲ τὰ πρὸς Ἱπποκράτους εἰρημένα, μή τί γε δὴ τῶν ἄλλων, ὅσοι περὶ τούτων ἱστόρησαν,…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΚΥΟΥΜΕΝΩΝ ΔΙΑΠΛΑΣΕΩΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg022.local001/#tlg0057-tlg022-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg022.local001/#tlg0057-tlg022-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg022.local001/#tlg0057-tlg022-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg022.local001/#tlg0057-tlg022-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg022.local001/#tlg0057-tlg022-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg022.local001/#tlg0057-tlg022-local001-6"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg022.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg022.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg022/local001.json.gz"}}