{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg024.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg024.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg024.local001","title":"De optima corporis nostri constitutione","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=751%3Bownerid=13510798903411997-769","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De optima corporis nostri constitutione. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1822. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg024.local001","excerpt":"Τίς ἡ ἀρίστη κατασκευὴ τοῦ σώματος ἡμῶν; ἆρά γε ἡ εὐκρατοτάτη, καθάπερ ἔδοξε πολλοῖς μὲν παλαιῶν ἰατρῶν τε καὶ φιλοσόφων; ἢ τὴν μὲν ἀρίστην ἀναγκαῖον εὐκρατοτάτην ὑπάρχειν, οὐ μὴν τήν γε εὐκρατοτάτην ἀρίστην ἐξ ἀνάγκης; ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ θερμοῦ καὶ ψυχροῦ καὶ ξηροῦ καὶ ὑγροῦ σύμμετρος κρᾶσις ὑγεία τῶν ὁμοιομερῶν ἐστι μελῶν τοῦ σώματος ἡμῶν· ἡ δὲ ἐκ τούτων ἁπάντων διάπλασις τοῦ ζώου ἐν θέσει καὶ μεγέθει καὶ σχήματι καὶ ἀριθμῷ τῶν συνθέντων ὑπάρχει. καὶ δόξειεν ἂν ἐγχωρεῖν τὸ ἐκ τῶν πλείστων μορίων εὐκράτων συγκείμενόν τι σῶμα παρὰ τὸ μέγεθος αὐτῶν ἢ τὸν ἀριθμὸν, ἢ τὴν διάπλασιν, ἢ τὴν πρὸς ἄλληλα σύνταξιν ἡμαρτῆσθαι. πειρατέον οὖν ὑπὲρ ἁπάντων τούτων ἐφεξῆς διελθεῖν ἀρξαμένους ἀπὸ τῶν ὀνομάτων, οἷς ἐξ ἀνάγκης χρώμεθα κατὰ τὸν λόγον, ἐπειδὴ καὶ περὶ τούτων ἐρίζουσί τινες, οἱ μὲν κατασκευὴν ἀρίστην, οἱ δὲ διάθεσιν, οἱ δὲ σχέσιν, οἱ δὲ ἕξιν, ἢ φύσιν σώματος, ἢ ὅπως ἂν ἑκάστῳ δόξειε λέγειν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΣΩΜΑΤΟΣ ΗΜΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg024.local001/#tlg0057-tlg024-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg024.local001/#tlg0057-tlg024-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg024.local001/#tlg0057-tlg024-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg024.local001/#tlg0057-tlg024-local001-4"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg024.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg024.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg024/local001.json.gz"}}