{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg030.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg030.local001","title":"De atra bile","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":"1823","volume":"5","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.15862725?urlappend=%3Bseq=114%3Bownerid=13510798903412083-120","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De atra bile. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1823. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg030.local001","excerpt":"Περὶ μελαίνης χολῆς ἔνιοι μὲν ἐπὶ πλέον, ἢ ὡς τοῖς ἔργοις τῆς ἰατρικῆς τέχνης ἐστὶ χρήσιμον, ἐξέτειναν τὸν λόγον, ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ τοῦ δικαίου μέτρου καθεῖλόν τι, καθάπερ ἔνιοι παντάπασιν οὐδὲν εἶπον, οἷς ἄν τις μᾶλλον μέμψαιτο τῶν προσθέντων ἄχρηστόν τι. ῥᾷον γὰρ ἀφελεῖν τὸ περιττὸν τοῦ τὸ μηδόλως εἰρημένον αὐτὸ ἅπαν ἐξευρεῖν. Ἱπποκράτης μὲν οὖν μοι δοκεῖ τὸ χρήσιμον εἰς τὰ τῆς τέχνης ἔργα πρῶτος εἰπεῖν, ὥσπερ αὖ πάλιν Ἐρασίστρατος ὅλον παραλιπεῖν. οἱ γὰρ περὶ Πλειστόνικόν τε καὶ Πραξαγόραν καὶ Φιλότιμον, ἐπιπλεῖστον ἐργασάμενοι τὸν περὶ τῶν χυμῶν λόγον, ἔνια μέν μοι δοκοῦσι χρησίμως διορίσασθαι τῶν ἀδιορίστως Ἱπποκράτει γεγραμμένων, ἔνια δὲ καὶ ψευδῶς ἀποφήνασθαι. τῶν δὲ νεωτέρων ἄριστα γέγραπται περὶ μελαγχολίας τῷ Ἐφεσίῳ Ῥούφῳ. καί τις εὐλόγως ἂν φαίη, μηδὲν ἐνδεῖν τοῖς κατὰ φύσιν ἀκούουσιν, οὐκ ἐριστικῶς ἀντιλέγειν προαιρουμένοις, ὅπερ ἐπιπλεῖστον οὐκ ὀλίγοι τῶν νεωτέρων ἰατρῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΜΕΛΑΙΝΗΣ ΧΟΛΗΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/#tlg0057-tlg030-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/#tlg0057-tlg030-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/#tlg0057-tlg030-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/#tlg0057-tlg030-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/#tlg0057-tlg030-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/#tlg0057-tlg030-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/#tlg0057-tlg030-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/#tlg0057-tlg030-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/#tlg0057-tlg030-local001-9"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg030.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg030/local001.json.gz"}}