{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg077.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg077.local001","title":"De compositione medicamentorum per genera","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":"1827","volume":"13","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.hxpp8t?urlappend=%3Bseq=372","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De compositione medicamentorum per genera. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1827. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg077.local001","excerpt":"Ἤδη μοι καὶ πρόσθεν ἐγέγραπτο πραγματεία, δυοῖν μὲν ἐξ αὐτῆς τῶν πρώτων βιβλίων ἐκδοθέντων, ἐγκαταλειφθέντων δὲ ἐν τῇ κατὰ τὴν ἱερὰν ὁδὸν ἀποθήκῃ μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων, ἡνίκα τὸ τῆς Εἰρήνης τέμενος ὅλον ἐκαύθη, καὶ κατὰ τὸ παλάτιον αἱ μεγάλαι βιβλιοθῆκαι. τηνικαῦτα γὰρ ἑτέρων τε πολλῶν ἀπώλοντο βιβλία καὶ τῶν ἐμῶν ὅσα κατὰ τὴν ἀποθήκην ἐκείνην ἔκειτο, μηδενὸς τῶν ἐν Ῥώμῃ φίλων ἔχειν ὁμολογοῦντος ἀντίγραφα τῶν πρώτων δυοῖν. ἐγκειμένων οὖν τῶν ἑταίρων αὖθίς με γράψαι τὴν αὐτὴν πραγματείαν, ἀναγκαῖον ἔδοξέ μοι δηλῶσαι περὶ τῶν προεκδοθέντων, ὅπως μή τις προεντυχὼν αὐτοῖς ποτε ζητοίη τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ δίς με περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν πραγματεύσασθαι. κατ’ ἐκεῖνα μὲν οὖν ἐποιησάμην τὸν λόγον ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ πρώτου βιβλίου πρὸς τοὺς σοφιστικῶς ἀναιροῦντας, ὡς οἷόν τε τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τῶν συνθέτων φαρμάκων, ἐνίοις δὲ καὶ τῶν ἁπλῶν ἐπηρεάζοντας, ἅμα τοῦ σκώπτειν τοὺς γεγραφότας ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν, ὡς τὰ μὲν ἧπαρ ὠφελεῖ,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001/#tlg0057-tlg077-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001/#tlg0057-tlg077-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001/#tlg0057-tlg077-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001/#tlg0057-tlg077-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001/#tlg0057-tlg077-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001/#tlg0057-tlg077-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001/#tlg0057-tlg077-local001-7"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg077.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg077/local001.json.gz"}}