{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg012.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg012.local001","title":"Aphorismi","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":["Aphorisms","Aphorismes","Ἀφορισμοί"],"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":"1844","volume":"4","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/ucm.5321352167?urlappend=%3Bseq=488","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Hippocrates. Aphorismi. ed. Émile Littré. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Paris, Baillière, 1844. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg012.local001","excerpt":"1. 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 ποιεῦντα, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν νοσέοντα, καὶ τοὺς παρεόντας, καὶ τὰ ἔξωθεν. 2. Ἐν τῇσι ταραχῇσι τῆς κοιλίης, καὶ ἐμέτοισι, τοῖσιν αὐτομάτως γιγνομένοισιν, ἢν μὲν, οἷα δεῖ καθαίρεσθαι, καθαίρωνται, ξυμφέρει τε καὶ εὐφόρως φέρουσιν· ἢν δὲ μὴ, τοὐναντίον. Οὕτω δὲ καὶ κενεαγγείη, ἢν μὲν, οἷα δεῖ γίγνεσθαι, γίγνηται, ξυμφέρει τε καὶ εὐφόρως φέρουσιν· ἢν δὲ μὴ, τοὐναντίον. Ἐπιβλέπειν οὖν δεῖ καὶ χώρην, καὶ ὥρην, καὶ ἡλικίην, καὶ νούσους, ἐν ᾗσι δεῖ, ἢ οὔ. 3. Ἐν τοῖσι γυμναστικοῖσιν αἱ ἐπ᾿ ἄκρον εὐεξίαι σφαλεραὶ, ἢν ἐν τῷ ἐσχάτῳ ἔωσιν· οὐ γὰρ δύνανται μένειν ἐν τῷ αὐτέῳ, οὐδὲ ἀτρεμέειν· ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐκ ἀτρεμένουσιν, οὐδ᾿ ἔτι δυνάνται ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον ἐπιδιδόναι, λείπεται ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον· τουτέων οὖν εἴνεκεν τὴν εὐεξίην λύειν ξυμφέρει μὴ βραδέως, ἵνα πάλιν ἀρχὴν ἀναθρέψιος…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001/1-book-1/"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001/2-book-2/"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001/3-book-3/"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001/4-book-4/"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001/5-book-5/"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001/6-book-6/"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001/7-book-7/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0627.tlg012.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627/tlg012/local001.json.gz"}}