{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg085.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg085.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg085.local001","title":"In Hippocratis De natura hominis","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":"1828","volume":"15","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.hxpp8x?urlappend=%3Bseq=17%3Bownerid=27021597764276554-21","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. In Hippocratis De natura hominis. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1828. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg085.local001","excerpt":"Προοίμιον Γαλήνου. Περὶ τῶν καθ᾿ Ἱπποκράτην στοιχείων πάλαι ποθ᾿ ὑπόμνημα τῶν ἑταίρων τινὶ πρὸς ἀποδημίαν στελλομένῳ γράψας ἐπιδέδωκα, τῆς ἐκείνου στοχαζόμενος ἕξεως· ἅπερ οὖν ᾔδειν αὐτὸν ἀκριβῶς ἐπιστάμενος, οὔτ᾿ ἀπέδειξα κατὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦ συγγράμματος οὔτ᾿ ἀνέμνησα καί περ εἰωθὼς οὕτω πράττειν, ὅταν κοινὸς ὁ λόγος ἅπασι τοῖς ἀναγνωσομένοις αὐτὸν ἔσεσθαι μέλλοι. φθάσαντος δ᾿ οὐκ οἶδ᾿ ὅπως εἰς πολλοὺς ἐκπεσεῖν τοῦ συγγράμματος, οὐκέθ᾿ ἕτερον ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ ποιεῖν ἔδοξέ μοι, καὶ τὴν ἐξήγησιν τοῦ περὶ φύσιος ἀνθρώπου βιβλίου διὰ τοῦτ᾿ ἀνεβαλλόμην, ὅτι τὰ συνέχοντα πάντα διὰ τοῦ προεκδοθέντος ὑπομνήματος, ὃ περὶ τῶν καθ᾿ Ἱπποκράτην στοιχείων ἐπιγέγραπται, σαφῶς ἐδέδεικτο. νῦν οὖν ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Ἱπποκρατείου συγγράμματος ἐξήγησιν οὐ μόνον τῶν ἀναγκαίων εἰς τὸ δόγμα λέξεων, ὡς ἐν ἐκείνῳ πρότερον ἐπεποιήμην, ἀλλ᾿ ἁπασῶν ἐφεξῆς, ἐδεήθησαν οἱ ἑταῖροι παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ λαβεῖν, ἀρχόμενος τῆς ἐξηγήσεως…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg085.local001/#tlg0057-tlg085-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg085.local001/#tlg0057-tlg085-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg085.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg085.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg085/local001.json.gz"}}