{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg034.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg034.local002","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":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Knobloch","place":"Lipsiae","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=909%3Bownerid=13510798903412083-947","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De parvae pilae exercitio. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Lipsiae, Knobloch, 1823. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg034.local002","excerpt":"Πηλίκον ἀγαθόν ἐστιν εἰς ὑγείαν, ὦ Ἐπίγενες, γυμνάσια, καὶ ὡς χρὴ τῶν σιτίων ἡγεῖσθαι αὐτὰ, παλαιοῖς ἀνδράσιν αὐτάρκως εἴρηται, φιλοσόφων τε καὶ ἰατρῶν τοῖς ἀρίστοις· ὅσον δ’ ὑπὲρ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ διὰ τῆς μικρᾶς σφαίρας ἐστὶν, τοῦτο οὐδέπω τῶν πρόσθεν ἱκανῶς οὐδεὶς ἐξηγήσατο. δίκαιον οὖν ἡμᾶς, ἃ γινώσκομεν, εἰπεῖν. ὑπὸ σοῦ δὲ κριθησόμεθα, τοῦ πάντων ἠσκηκότος ἄριστα τὴν ἐν αὐτοῖς τέχνην. χρήσιμα δ’ ἱκανῶς εἰρῆσθαι ἂν δόξειε καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις, οἷς ἃν μεταδῷς τοῦ λόγου, γενησόμενα. φημὶ γὰρ, ἄριστα μὲν ἁπάντων γυμνάσια εἶναι τὰ μὴ μόνον τὸ σῶμα διαπονεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν τέρπειν δυνάμενα. καὶ ὅσοι κυνηγεσίαν 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 ψυχὴν κινῆσαι, ὥστε πολλοὶ μὲν ἀπηλλάγησαν νοσημάτων, ἡσθέντες μόνον, πολλοὶ δ’ ἑάλωσαν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΑ ΜΙΚΡΑΣ ΣΦΑΙΡΑΣ ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΟΥ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local002/#tlg0057-tlg034-local002-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local002/#tlg0057-tlg034-local002-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local002/#tlg0057-tlg034-local002-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local002/#tlg0057-tlg034-local002-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local002/#tlg0057-tlg034-local002-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg034.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg034/local002.json.gz"}}