{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg050.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg050.local001","title":"De plenitudine","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":"1824","volume":"7","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.hxpp8n?urlappend=%3Bseq=525","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De plenitudine. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1824. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg050.local001","excerpt":"Οὔτε πολλάκις ὀνομάζοντας ἕτερον ὄνομα τοῦ πλήθους μᾶλλον ἔστιν εὑρεῖν ἅπαντας τοὺς νῦν σχεδὸν ἰατροὺς, οὔτ’ ἀγνοοῦντας ἕτερόν τι τούτου μᾶλλον. ὅσοι γοῦν αὐτῶν οἷοί τέ εἰσι καὶ δοῦναι καὶ λαβεῖν λόγον, οἱ πλεῖστοι μὲν ἀποκρίνονται τοῖς ἐρομένοις ὅ τι ποτ’ οὖν ὀνομάζουσι πλῆθος, ὡς ἐν τῷ πρὸς τὶ λέγεται τοὔνομα, καθάπερ τὸ πολύ τε καὶ τὸ ὀλίγον, ὥστε οὐκ εἶναι δυνατὸν ἐν μέτρῳ περιλαβεῖν αὐτό· τὸ γὰρ ἑτέρῳ πολὺ, τοῦτ’ ἐνίοτε ὑπάρχει ὀλιγώτερον ἑτέρῳ. καὶ ἐπειδὰν ἐρωτήσῃς αὐτοὺς, ἀξιῶν ἀποκρίνεσθαι τὸ πρᾶγμα πρὸς ὃ τὸ πλῆθος εἶναι λέγουσι, τινὲς μὲν ἰχθύων ἀφωνότεροι γίγνονται, τινὲς δὲ οὕτω μακρά τε καὶ ἀλλόκοτα ληροῦσιν, ὡς μὴ παρακολουθῆσαι δύνασθαι τοῖς ὑπ’ αὐτῶν λεγομένοις. ὀλίγιστοι δὲ ἀποκρίνονται, τὸ πολὺ καὶ ὀλίγον ὡς πρὸς τὴν δύναμιν νοεῖσθαι· καὶ εἰ αὖθις αὐτοὺς ἐπανέροιο, τί λέγουσι δύναμιν, ἔνιοι μὲν οὐδ’ ὅλως ἀποκρίνονται· τῶν δὲ τολμησάντων ἀποφήνασθαί τι λέγει μὲν οὐδεὶς…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΠΛΗΘΟΥΣ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/#tlg0057-tlg050-local001-11"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg050.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg050/local001.json.gz"}}