{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg072.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg072.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg072.local001","title":"De purgantium medicamentorum facultate","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":"1826","volume":"11","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.hxpp8s?urlappend=%3Bseq=335%3Bownerid=27021597764275152-339","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De purgantium medicamentorum facultate. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Lipsiae, Knobloch, 1826. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg072.local001","excerpt":"Κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἰτίαν ἐοίκασιν οἱ παλαιότατοι τῶν ἰατρῶν τὰς πονηρὰς δόξας ἀνελέγκτους ἐᾶσαι, καθ’ ἣν καὶ τῶν νομοθετῶν οἱ ἀρχαιότατοι τὰ μέγιστα τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἀτιμώρητα. μετριωτέρας γὰρ οὔσης κατ’ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον τῆς κακίας καὶ μήτε ἀδικεῖν ἐπιχειρούντων τὰ μέγιστα μήτε ἀναισχυντεῖν ὑπομενόντων τὰ φανερώτατα, πῶς ἄν τις ἢ κόλασιν ὥριζε τοῖς μηδ’ ὅλως γεγενημένοις, ἢ ἔλεγχον ἐπῆγεν οἷς οὐδεὶς ὅλως εἶπεν; ἐπειδὴ δ’ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ τῆς κακίας αὐξανομένης οὔτε ἀτόλμητον οὐδὲν ἔτι τοῖς ἀνθρώποις οὔτε ἄῤῥητον ἦν, οἱ μὲν νομοθέται πολλοὺς τρόπους καινοὺς ἐξευρίσκουσι τῶν ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀδικοῦσι τιμωριῶν. οἱ δ’ ἀλήθειαν τιμῶντες ἐλέγχων ἰδέας πολυτρόπους ἐπὶ τοῖς σοφισταῖς, ὅπερ νῦν ἐοίκαμεν καὶ ἡμεῖς ἂν δράσειν, ἐξελέγχοντες τοὺς ἀναιροῦντας μὲν τῶν καθαιρόντων φαρμάκων τὴν ἑλκτικὴν δύναμιν ὧν ἐκκενοῦσι χυμῶν, μεταβλητικὴν δέ τινα φάσκοντας ἔχειν ἁπάντων ὁμοτίμως τῶν πλησιαζόντων αὐτοῖς. λέλεκται…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΘΑΙΡΟΝΤΩΝ ΦΑΡΜΑΚΩΝ ΔΥΝΑΜΕΩΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg072.local001/#tlg0057-tlg072-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg072.local001/#tlg0057-tlg072-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg072.local001/#tlg0057-tlg072-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg072.local001/#tlg0057-tlg072-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg072.local001/#tlg0057-tlg072-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg072.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg072.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg072/local001.json.gz"}}