{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg009.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg009.local001","title":"De fracturis","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Hippocrates","authorityName":"HIPPOCRATES Med. et CORPUS HIP-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0627-hippocrates-med-et-corpus-hip/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0627-hippocrates-med-et-corpus-hip/","editors":["Émile Littré"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate","edition":null,"publisher":"Baillière","place":"Paris","date":"1841","volume":"3","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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Ἢν δέ τι ἐγκλίνῃ ἢ τῇ ἢ τῇ, ἐπὶ τὸ πρηνὲς ῥέπειν· ἐλάσσων γὰρ ἡ ἁμαρτὰς ἢ ἐπὶ τὸ ὕπτιον. Οἱ μὲν οὖν μηδὲν προβουλεύσαντες οὐδὲν ἐξαμαρτάνουσιν ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πουλύ· αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ ἐπιδεόμενος τὴν χεῖρα ἀπορέγει, οὕτως ὑπὸ τῆς δικαίης φύσιος ἀναγκαζόμενος· οἱ δὲ ἰητροὶ σοφιζόμενοι δῆθεν ἐστὶν οἳ ἁμαρτάνουσιν. Σπουδὴ μὲν οὐ πολλὴ χεῖρα κατεαγυῖαν χειρίσαι, καὶ παντὸς δὲ ἰητροῦ, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν· ἀναγκάζομαι δ᾿ ἐγὼ πλείω γράφειν περὶ αὐτέου, ὅτι οἶδα ἰητροὺς σοφοὺς δόξαντας εἶναι ἀπὸ σχημάτων χειρὸς ἐν ἐπιδέσει, ἀφ᾿ ὧν ἀμαθέας αὐτέους ἐχρῆν δοκέειν εἶναι. Ἄλλα γὰρ πολλὰ οὕτω ταύτης τῆς τέχνης κρίνεται· τὸ γὰρ ξενοπρεπὲς οὔπω ξυνιέντες εἰ χρηστὸν, μᾶλλον ἐπαινέουσιν, ἢ τὸ ξύνηθες, ὃ ἤδη οἴδασιν ὅτι χρηστὸν, καὶ τὸ ἀλλόκοτον, ἢ τὸ εὔδηλον. Ῥητέον οὖν ὁκόσας ἐθέλω τῶν ἁμαρτάδων τῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΑΓΜΩΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 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32","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-32"},{"label":"Chapter 33","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-33"},{"label":"Chapter 34","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-34"},{"label":"Chapter 35","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-35"},{"label":"Chapter 36","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-36"},{"label":"Chapter 37","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-37"},{"label":"Chapter 38","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-38"},{"label":"Chapter 39","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-39"},{"label":"Chapter 41","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-41"},{"label":"Chapter 42","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-42"},{"label":"Chapter 43","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-43"},{"label":"Chapter 44","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-44"},{"label":"Chapter 45","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-45"},{"label":"Chapter 46","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-46"},{"label":"Chapter 47","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg009.local001/#tlg0627-tlg009-local001-47"},{"label":"Chapter 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