{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg083.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg083.local001","title":"De praenotione ad Epigenem","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":"1827","volume":"14","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.hxpp8u?urlappend=%3Bseq=609%3Bownerid=27021597764274861-607","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De praenotione ad Epigenem. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Lipsiae, Knobloch, 1827. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg083.local001","excerpt":"Ὅσον μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖς πολλοῖς τῶν ἰατρῶν, ὦ Ἐπίγενες, ἀδύνατόν ἐστι προγινώσκειν τὰ τοῖς κάμνουσιν ἐσόμενα καθ᾿ ἑκάστην νόσον. ἀφ᾿ οὗ γὰρ οἱ τὸ δοκεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ εἶναι σπουδάσαντες οὐ κατὰ τὴν ἰατρικὴν μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ τὰς ἄλλας τέχνας ἐπλεόνασαν, ἠμέληται μὲν τὰ κάλλιστα τῶν τεχνῶν, ἤσκηται δ᾿ ἐξ ὧν ἄν τις εὐδοκιμήσειεν παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς, εἰπεῖν τι καὶ πρᾶξαι πρὸς ἡδονὴν, κολακεύεσθαι, θωπευτικῶς προσαγορεύειν ἑκάστης ἡμέρας, τοὺς πλουτοῦντάς τε καὶ δυναμένους ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι συμπροέρχεσθαι, παραπέμπειν προερχομένους οἴκαδε, δορυφορεῖν ἐν τοῖς δείπνοις, βωμολοχεύεσθαι. τινὲς δ᾿ αὐτῶν οὐ ταῦτα μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῇ τῶν ἱματίων καὶ δακτυλίων πολυτελείᾳ καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἀκολουθούντων καὶ σκευῶν ἀργυρῶν παρασκευῇ τοὺς ἰδιώτας ἀναπείθουσιν, ὡς ἀξιοζήλωτοί τινες ὄντες. ἐκ τούτων οὖν ἁπάντων τὰ μὲν ἥδοντες, τὰ δ᾿ ἐκπλήττοντες ἀνθρώπους ἀπείρους ἀληθινῆς κρίσεως πραγμάτων, ὡς μὲν οὗτοι νομίζουσιν,…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΟΓΙΝΩΣΚΕΙΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΠΙΓΕΝΗΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/#tlg0057-tlg083-local001-14"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg083.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg083/local001.json.gz"}}