{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg036.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg036.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg036.local001","title":"De sanitate tuenda","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":"6","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/hvd.hxpp8m?urlappend=%3Bseq=13%3Bownerid=27021597764275073-17","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De sanitate tuenda. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1823. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg036.local001","excerpt":"Τῆς περὶ τὸ σῶμα τἀνθρώπου τέχνης μιᾶς οὔσης, ὡς ἐν ἑτέρῳ δέδεικται γράμματι, δύο ἐστὸν τὰ πρῶτά τε καὶ μέγιστα μόρια· καλεῖται δὲ τὸ μὲν ἕτερον αὐτῶν ὑγιεινὸν, τὸ δὲ ἕτερον θεραπευτικὸν, ἔμπαλιν ἔχοντα πρὸς ἄλληλα ταῖς ἐνεργείαις, εἴ γε τῷ μὲν φυλάξαι, τῷ δὲ ἀλλοιῶσαι πρόκειται τὴν περὶ τὸ σῶμα κατάστασιν. ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ ἀξιώματι καὶ χρόνῳ πρότερόν ἐστιν ὑγεία νόσου, χρὴ δήπου καὶ ἡμᾶς, ὅπως ἄν τις ταύτην φυλάξειεν, ἐπισκέψαι πρότερον, ἐφεξῆς δὲ καὶ ὡς ἄν τις ἄριστα τὰς νόσους ἐξιῷτο. κοινὴ δ’ ἀμφοτέροις ὁδὸς τῆς εὑρέσεως, εἰ γνοίημεν, ὁποία τίς ἐστι διάθεσις τοῦ σώματος, ἣν ὑγείαν ὀνομάζομεν· οὐ γάρ τοι οὔτε φυλάττειν αὐτὴν παροῦσαν, οὔτ’ ἀνακτᾶσθαι διαφθειρομένην οἷοίτ’ ἂν εἴημεν ἀγνοοῦντες τὸ παράπαν, ἥτις ποτ’ ἐστί. γέγραπται δὲ ἡμῖν ἑτέρωθι καὶ περὶ τοῦδε, καὶ δέδεικται τῶν μὲν ὁμοιομερῶν ὀνομαζομένων ἡ ὑγεία, θερμοῦ καὶ ψυχροῦ, καὶ ὑγροῦ καὶ ξηροῦ, συμμετρία τις ὑπάρχουσα, τῶν δ’…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg036.local001/#tlg0057-tlg036-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg036.local001/#tlg0057-tlg036-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg036.local001/#tlg0057-tlg036-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg036.local001/#tlg0057-tlg036-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg036.local001/#tlg0057-tlg036-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg036.local001/#tlg0057-tlg036-local001-6"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg036.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg036.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg036/local001.json.gz"}}