{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg032.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg032.local001","title":"De placitis Hippocratis et Platonis","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=191%3Bownerid=13510798903412083-213","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De placitis Hippocratis et Platonis. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1823. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg032.local001","excerpt":"Ἀλλὰ κᾀκείνου τὸ συνεχὲς τῷ στέρνῳ διεσεσήπει, καὶ ἦν οὕτω σαφῶς θεάσασθαι τὴν καρδίαν, ὡς κᾀν ταῖς τῶν ζώων ἀνατομαῖς, ἐπειδὰν ἑκόντες ἀναγυμνῶμεν. τὸ μὲν οὖν παιδάριον ἐσώθη, σαρκωθέντων τε τῶν περὶ τὸ στέρνον καὶ συμφύντων ἀλλήλοις, καὶ τοιοῦτον ἐπίθεμα γενομένων τῆς καρδίας, οἷόν περ ἡ ἔμπροσθεν ἦν κορυφὴ τοῦ χιτῶνος. καὶ οὐ χρὴ θαυμάζειν, εἰ, γυμνωθείσης τῆς καρδίας, ἐσώθη τὸ παιδάριον. οὐδὲν γὰρ περιττότερον ἡ διάθεσις εἶχε τῶν ὁσημέραι γινομένων εἰς τὸν θώρακα συντρήσεων. οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ ὁ περικάρδιος ἴδιον ἐξαίρετον ἐπιφέρει τινὰ κίνδυνον, ὥσπερ που καὶ Ἡρόφιλος εἴρηκε καὶ ἄλλοι πολλοὶ τῶν ἰατρῶν. οὔτε οὖν τὸ παιδάριον ἐκεῖνο παρ’ ὅλην τὴν θεραπείαν ἐβέβλαπτο τὴν ἐνέργειαν, οὔτε ἄν τι ζῶον ὁμοίως ἀνατέμνωμεν. τίνος οὖν ἕνεκα ταῦτ’ εἴρηταί μοι; τοῦ τὴν καρδίαν αἵματος εἶναι μεστὴν τηνικαῦτα κατ’ ἀμφοτέρας τὰς κοιλίας. τῷ τοῦτο δῆλον; εἰ τρώσαις αὐτὴν, εὐθὺς ἐκχεῖται τὸ αἷμα. ἐχρῆν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/#tlg0057-tlg032-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/#tlg0057-tlg032-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/#tlg0057-tlg032-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/#tlg0057-tlg032-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/#tlg0057-tlg032-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/#tlg0057-tlg032-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/#tlg0057-tlg032-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/#tlg0057-tlg032-local001-8"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/#tlg0057-tlg032-local001-9"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg032.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg032/local001.json.gz"}}