{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg092.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg092.local001","title":"In Hippocratis Aphorismos","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":"1829","volume":"17.2-18.1","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.hxpp8y?urlappend=%3Bseq=325%3Bownerid=27021597764270292-329","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. In Hippocratis Aphorismos. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1829. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg092.local001","excerpt":"Ὁ βίος βραχὺς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρὴ, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξὺς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερὴ, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή. δεῖ δὲ οὐ μόνον ἑωυτὸν παρέχειν τὰ δέοντα ποιέοντα, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν νοσέοντα καὶ τοὺς παρέοντας καὶ τὰ ἔξωθεν. Ὅτι μὲν οὖν οὗτος ὁ λόγος, εἴθ’ εἷς ἀφορισμός ἐστιν εἴτε δύο, προοίμιον ὑπάρχει τοῦ παντὸς συγγράμματος ὡμολόγηται σχεδὸν ἅπασι τοῖς ἐξηγησαμένοις αὐτόν. τί δὲ βουλόμενος ὁ Ἱπποκράτης ἐχρήσατο τοιούτῳ προοιμίῳ τῶν ἀπορωτάτων ἐστί. τάχα δ’ ἂν εὕροιμεν αὐτὸ, τὰ κατὰ μέρος ἅπαντα τοῦ λόγου προδιασκεψάμενοι. τὸν μὲν βίον ὅτι τῇ τέχνῃ παραβάλλων ἔφη βραχὺν ἅπασι σχεδὸν τοῖς ἐξηγησαμένοις τὸ βιβλίον πρόδηλον· τὴν τέχνην δ’ αὐτὴν διὰ τοῦτο ὑπολαμβάνω ἡγεῖσθαι μακρὰν, ὅτι τόν τε καιρὸν ὀλίγου δεῖν ἁπασῶν τῶν κατὰ μέρος ἐνεργειῶν ὀλιγοχρόνιον ἔχει καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο δύσληπτον, ὡς μακρᾶς δεῖσθαι τριβῆς, τὸν διαγνωσόμενον αὐτήν. ὀργάνοιν τε δυοῖν ὄντοιν ὑφ’ οἷν εὑρίσκεται τὰ κατὰ τὰς τέχνας τὸ μὲν ἕτερον,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001/#tlg0057-tlg092-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001/#tlg0057-tlg092-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001/#tlg0057-tlg092-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001/#tlg0057-tlg092-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001/#tlg0057-tlg092-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001/#tlg0057-tlg092-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001/#tlg0057-tlg092-local001-7"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg092.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg092/local001.json.gz"}}