{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg027.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg027.local002","title":"Περὶ ἱερῆς νούσου","titleGreek":"Περὶ ἱερῆς νούσου","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":"Cultural Heritage Language Technologies","sourceTitle":"Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate","edition":null,"publisher":"Adolf M. Hakkert","place":"Amsterdam","date":"1961","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":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":[],"funders":["National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/oeuvrescomplte06hippuoft/page/352/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Hippocrates. Περὶ ἱερῆς νούσου. ed. Émile Littré. Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate, Amsterdam, Adolf M. Hakkert, 1961. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg027.local002","excerpt":"1. περὶ μὲν τῆς ἱερῆς νούσου καλεομένης ὧδʼ 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 ἔσται καὶ οὐχὶ ἓν, ὡς ἐγὼ ἀποδείξω ἕτερα οὐδὲν ἧσσον ἐόντα θαυμάσια οὐδὲ τερατώδεα, ἃ οὐδεὶς νομίζει ἱερὰ εἶναι. τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ οἱ πυρετοὶ οἱ ἀμφημερι νοὶ καὶ οἱ τριταῖοι καὶ οἱ τεταρταῖοι οὐδὲν ἧσσόν μοι δοκέουσιν. ἱεροὶ εἶναι καὶ ὑπὸ θεοῦ γίνεσθαι ταύτης τῆς νούσου, ὧν οὐ θαυμασίως γʼ ἔχουσιν· τοῦτο δὲ ὁρέω μαινομένους ἀνθρώπους καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-13"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-14"},{"label":"§ 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-15"},{"label":"§ 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-16"},{"label":"§ 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-17"},{"label":"§ 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/#tlg0627-tlg027-local002-18"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0627.tlg027.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627/tlg027/local002.json.gz"}}