{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0530.tlg006.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0530.tlg006.local001","title":"Ad Gaurum quomodo animetur fetus","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Pseudo-Galen","authorityName":"Pseudo-GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0530-pseudo-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0530-pseudo-galenus/","editors":["Karl Kalbfleisch"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Die neuplatonische, fälschlich dem Galen zugeschriebene Schrift Πρὸς Γαῦρον περὶ τοῦ πῶς ἐμψυχοῦνται τὰ ἔμβρυα","edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":"1895","volume":"1895","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. 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Die neuplatonische, fälschlich dem Galen zugeschriebene Schrift Πρὸς Γαῦρον περὶ τοῦ πῶς ἐμψυχοῦνται τὰ ἔμβρυα, 1895. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0530.tlg006.local001","excerpt":"Τὸ περὶ τῆς εἰς τὰ σώματα τῶν ψυχῶν εἰσκρίσεως ζῳογονίας ἕνεκα δόγμα πολλῆς ἀπορίας οὐχ ἡμᾶς, ὦ Γαῦρε, μόνους, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς προηγουμένως εἰς τὴν ζήτησιν αὐτοῦ καθέντας ἐμπέπλη(κ)ε, κοινῶς μὲν τῶν φυσικῶν καὶ σχεδὸν τῶν ἰατρ(ῶν) πάντ(ων) ἀπορησάντ(ων), πότερον χρὴ ζῷα ἡγεῖσθαι τὰ ἔμβρυα ἢ φυτικῶς ζῆν αὐτὰ μόνον, τῆς μὲν ἰδιότητος τοῦ ζῴου ἐν αἰσθήσει καὶ ὁρμῇ συνισταμένης, τῆς δὲ τῶν φυτῶν ἐν θρεπτικῇ τε καὶ αὐξητικῇ χωρὶς αἰσθήσεώς τε καὶ ὁρμῆς θεωρουμένης· ὅθεν τῶν ἐμβρύων φαντασίας μὲν χωρὶς καὶ ὁρμῆς διεξαγόντων, αὐξητικῶς δὲ καὶ θρεπτικῶς μόνον διοικουμένων — μαρτυρεῖ γὰρ ἄμφω τὰ γιγνόμενα — φυτὰ μὲν ἢ φυτοῖς ὅμοια συγχωρεῖν, ζῷα δ’ ἡγεῖσθαι διὰ τὸ μέλλειν ἐκ γαστρὸς προελθόντα ζωοῦσθαι μὴ προπετὲς ᾖ καὶ ἀνδρῶν ἀβασανίστως μεμελετηκό(των) ταῖς τῶν πολλῶν δόξαις συνήκειν· ἰδίᾳ δ’ αὖ πάλιν τῶν καὶ ζωικῆς ψυχῆς αὐτὰ μετέχειν ὑπειληφότων ἀμφισβητησάντων, πότερον καὶ ἐνεργείᾳ ζῷα χρὴ…","divisions":[{"label":"[Γαληνοῦ] πρὸς Γαῦρον περὶ τοῦ πῶς ἐμψυχοῦται τὰ ἔμβρυα.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/#tlg0530-tlg006-local001-18"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0530.tlg006.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0530/tlg006/local001.json.gz"}}