{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg027.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg027.local001","title":"De morbo sacro","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. 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Περὶ μὲν τῆς ἱερῆς νούσου καλεομένης ὧδ’ ἔχει· οὐδέν τί μοι δοκέει τῶν ἄλλων θειοτέρη εἶναι νούσων οὐδὲ ἱερωτέρη, ἀλλὰ φύσιν μὲν ἔχει ἣν καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ νουσήματα, ὅθεν γίνεται. Φύσιν δὲ αὐτῇ καὶ πρόφασιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἐνόμισαν θεῖόν τι πρῆγμα εἶναι ὑπὸ ἀπειρίης καὶ θαυμασιότητος, ὅτι οὐδὲν ἔοικεν ἑτέρῃσι νούσοισιν· καὶ κατὰ μὲν τὴν ἀπορίην αὐτοῖσι τοῦ μὴ γινώσκειν τὸ θεῖον αὐτῇ διασώζεται, κατὰ δὲ τὴν εὐπορίην τοῦ τρόπου τῆς ἰήσιος ᾧ ἰῶνται, ἀπόλλυται, ὅτι καθαρμοῖσί τε ἰῶνται καὶ ἐπαοιδῇσιν. Εἰ δὲ διὰ τὸ θαυμάσιον θεῖον νομιεῖται, πολλὰ τὰ ἱερὰ νουσήματα ἔστα καὶ οὐχὶ ἓν, ὡς ἐγὼ ἀποδείξω ἕτερα οὐδὲν ἧσσον ἐόντα θαυμάσια οὐδὲ τερατώδεα, ἃ οὐδεὶς νομίζει ἱερὰ εἶναι. Τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ οἱ πυρετοὶ οἷ ἀμφημερινοὶ καὶ οἱ τριταῖοι καὶ οἱ τεταρταῖοι οὐδὲν ἧσσόν μοι δοκέουσιν ἱεροὶ εἶναι καὶ ὑπὸ θεοῦ γίνεσθαι ταύτης τῆς νούσου, ὧν οὐ θαυμασίως γ’ ἔχουσιν· τοῦτο δὲ ὁρέω μαινομένους ἀνθρώπους καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΙΕΡΗΣ ΝΟΥΣΟΥ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/#tlg0627-tlg027-local001-18"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627/tlg027/local001.json.gz"}}