{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg019.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg019.local001","title":"De natura hominis","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=40","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Hippocrates. De natura hominis. ed. Émile Littré. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Paris, Baillière, 1849. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg019.local001","excerpt":"1. Ὅστις μὲν εἴωθεν ἀκούειν λεγόντων ἀμφὶ τῆς φύσιος τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης προσωτέρω ἢ ὁκόσον αὐτέης ἐς ἰητρικὴν ἐφήκει, τουτέῳ· μὲν οὐκ ἐπιτήδειος ὅδε ὁ λόγος ἀκούειν· οὔτε γὰρ τὸ πάμπαν ἠέρα λέγω τὸν ἄνθρωπον εἶναι, οὔτε πῦρ, οὔτε ὕδωρ, οὔτε γῆν, οὔτ’ ἄλλο οὐδὲν, ὅ τι μὴ φανερόν ἐστιν ἐνεὸν ἐν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ· ἀλλὰ τοῖσι βουλομένοισι ταῦτα λέγειν παρίημι. Δοκέουσι μέντοι μοι οὐκ ὀρθῶς γινώσκειν οἱ τὰ τοιαῦτα λέγοντες· γνώμῃ μὲν γὰρ τῇ αὐτέῃ πάντες χρέονται, λέγουσι δὲ οὐ ταὐτά· ἀλλὰ τῆς μὲν γνώμης τὸν ἐπίλογον τὸν αὐτὸν ποιέονται. Φασί τε γὰρ ἕν τι εἶναι, ὅ τί ἐστι, καὶ τοῦτ’ εἶναι τὸ ἕν τε καὶ τὸ πᾶν, κατὰ δὲ τὰ οὐνόματα οὐχ ὁμολογέουσιν· λέγει δ’ αὐτέων ὁ μέν τις φάσκων ἠέρα εἶναι τοῦτο τὸ ἕν τε καὶ τὸ πᾶν, ὁ δὲ πῦρ, ὁ δὲ ὕδωρ, ὁ δὲ γῆν, καὶ ἐπιλέγει ἕκαστος τῷ ἑωυτοῦ λόγῳ μαρτύριά τε καὶ τεκμήρια, ἅ γέ ἐστιν οὐδέν. Ὅτε γὰρ τῇ μὲν αὐτέῃ γνώμῃ πάντες χρέονται, λέγουσι δ’ οὐ τὰ αὐτὰ, δῆλον ὅτι…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΙΟΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/#tlg0627-tlg019-local001-15"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0627.tlg019.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627/tlg019/local001.json.gz"}}