{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg018.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg018.local001","title":"De arte","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":"1849","volume":"6","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.5321352149?urlappend=%3Bseq=10","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Hippocrates. De arte. ed. Émile Littré. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Paris, Baillière, 1849. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg018.local001","excerpt":"1. Εἰσί τινες οἳ τέχνην πεποίηνται τὸ τὰς τέχνας αἰσχροεπεῖν, ὡς μὲν οἴονται οἱ τοῦτο διαπρησσόμενοι, οὐχ ὃ ἐγὼ λέγω, ἀλλ’ ἱστορίης οἰκείης ἐπίδειξιν ποιεύμενοι. Ἐμοὶ δὲ τὸ μέν τι τῶν μὴ εὑρημένων ἐξευρίσκειν, ὅ τι καὶ εὑρεθὲν κρέσσον ᾖ ἢ ἀνεξεύρετον, ξυνέσιος δοκέει ἐπιθύμημά τε καὶ ἔργον εἶναι, καὶ τὸ τὰ ἡμίεργα ἐς τέλος ἐξεργάζεσθαι ὡσαύτως· τὸ δὲ λόγων οὐ καλῶν τέχνῃ τὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις εὑρημένα αἰσχύνειν προθυμέεσθαι, ἐπανορθοῦντα μὲν μηδὲν, διαβάλλοντα δὲ τὰ τῶν εἰδότων πρὸς τοὺς μὴ εἰδότας ἐξευρήματα, οὐκέτι δοκέει ξυνέσιος ἐπιθύμημά τε καὶ ἔργον εἶναι, ἀλλὰ κακαγγελίη μᾶλλον φύσιος ἢ ἀτεχνίη· μούνοισι γὰρ τοῖσιν ἀτέχνοισιν ἡ ἐργασίη αὕτη ἁρμόζει, φιλοτιμεομένων μὲν, οὐδαμᾶ δὲ δυναμένων κακίῃ ὑπουργέειν εἰς τὸ τὰ τῶν πέλας ἔργα ἢ ὀρθὰ ἐόντα διαβάλλειν, ἢ οὐκ ὀρθὰ μωμέεσθαι. Τοὺς μὲν οὖν ἐς τὰς ἄλλας τέχνας τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ ἐμπίπτοντας, οἷσι μέλει τε, καὶ ὧν μέλει, οἱ δυνάμενοι…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΤΕΧΝΗS.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/#tlg0627-tlg018-local001-13"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0627.tlg018.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627/tlg018/local001.json.gz"}}