{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg034.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg034.local001","title":"De parvae pilae exercitio","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Johannes Marquardt"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni librum De parvae pilae exercitio","edition":null,"publisher":"Domschule","place":"Güstrow","date":"1879","volume":"3-8","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://archive.org/details/4763785/page/2/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De parvae pilae exercitio. ed. Johannes Marquardt. Claudii Galeni librum De parvae pilae exercitio, Güstrow, Domschule, 1879. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg034.local001","excerpt":"Πηλίκον μὲν ἀγαθόν ἐστιν εἰς ὑγίειαν, ὦ Ἐπίγενες, γυμνάσια, καὶ ὡς χρὴ τῶν σιτίων ἡγεῖσθαι αὐτά, παλαιοῖς ἀνδράσιν αὐτάρκως εἴρηται, φιλοσόφων τε καὶ ἰατρῶν τοῖς ἀρίστοις· ὅσον δ’ ὑπὲρ τἆλλα τὰ διὰ τῆς σμικρᾶς σφαίρας ἐστίν, τοῦτ’ οὐδέπω τῶν πρόσθεν ἱκανῶς οὐδεὶς ἐξηγήσατο. δίκαιον οὖν ἡμᾶς, ἃ γιγνώσκομεν, εἰπεῖν, ὑπὸ σοῦ μὲν κριθησόμενα, τοῦ πάντων ἠσκηκότος ἄριστα τὴν ἑαυτοῦ τέχνην, χρήσιμα δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις, οἷς ἂν μεταδῷς τοῦ λόγου, γενησόμενα. φημὶ γὰρ ἄριστα μὲν ἁπάντων γυμνασίων εἶναι τὰ μὴ μόνον τὸ σῶμα διαπονεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν τέρπειν δυνάμενα. καὶ ὅσοι κυνηγέσια καὶ τὴν ἄλλην θήραν ἐξεῦρον, ἡδονῇ καὶ τέρψει καὶ φιλοτιμίᾳ τὸν ἐν αὐτοῖς πόνον κερασάμενοι, σοφοί τινες ἄνδρες ἦσαν καὶ φύσιν ἀνθρωπίνην ἀκριβῶς καταμεμαθηκότες. τοσοῦτον γὰρ ἐν αὐτῇ δύναται ψυχῆς κίνησις, ὥστε πολλοὶ μὲν ἀπηλλάγησαν νοσημάτων ἡσθέντες μόνον, πολλοὶ δ’ ἑάλωσαν ἀνιαθέντες. οὐδ’ ἔστιν οὐδὲν οὕτως…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΣΜΙΚΡΑΣ ΣΦΑΙΡΑΣ ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΟΥ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local001/#tlg0057-tlg034-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local001/#tlg0057-tlg034-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local001/#tlg0057-tlg034-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local001/#tlg0057-tlg034-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local001/#tlg0057-tlg034-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg034/local001.json.gz"}}