{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg031.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg031.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg031.local001","title":"De diaeta","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=476","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Hippocrates. De diaeta. ed. Émile Littré. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Paris, Baillière, 1849. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg031.local001","excerpt":"1. Εἰ μὲν μοί τις ἐδόκεε τῶν πρότερον ξυγγραψάντων περὶ διαίτης ἀνθρωπίνης τῆς πρὸς ὑγείαν ὀρθῶς ἐγνωκὼς ξυγγεγραφέναι πάντα διὰ παντὸς, ὁκόσα δυνατὸν ἀνθρωπίνῃ γνώμῃ περιληφθῆναι, ἱκανῶς ἂν εἶχέ μοι, ἄλλων ἐκπονησάντων, γνόντα τὰ ὀρθῶς ἔχοντα, τούτοισι χρέεσθαι, καθότι ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ἐδόκεε χρήσιμον εἶναι. Νῦν δὲ πολλοὶ μὲν ἤδη ξυνέγραψαν, οὐδεὶς δέ πω ἔγνω ὀρθῶς καθότι ἦν αὐτοῖς ξυγγραπτέον· ἄλλοι δὲ ἄλλο ἐπέτυχον· τὸ δὲ ὅλον οὐδείς πω τῶν πρότερον. Μεμφθῆναι μὲν οὖν οὐδενὶ αὐτῶν ἄξιόν ἐστιν, εἰ μὴ ἐδυνήθησαν ἐξευρεῖν, ἐπαινέσαι δὲ μᾶλλον πάντας ὅτι ἐπεχείρησαν ζητῆσαι. Ἐλέγχειν μὲν οὖν τὰ μὴ ὀρθῶς εἰρημένα οὐ παρεσκεύασμαι· προσομολογέειν δὲ τοῖσι καλῶς ἐγνωσμένοισι διανενόημαι· ὁκόσα μὲν γὰρ ὀρθῶς ὑπὸ τῶν πρότερον εἴρηται, οὐχ οἷόν τε ἄλλως κως ἐμὲ ξυγγράψαντα ὀρθῶς ξυγγράψαι· ὁκόσα δὲ μὴ ὀρθῶς εἰρήκασιν, ἐλέγχων μὲν ταῦτα, διότι οὐχ οὕτως ἔχει, οὐδὲν περανῶ· ἐξηγεύμενος δὲ καθότι…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg031.local001/#tlg0627-tlg031-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg031.local001/#tlg0627-tlg031-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg031.local001/#tlg0627-tlg031-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg031.local001/#tlg0627-tlg031-local001-4"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg031.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0627.tlg031.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627/tlg031/local001.json.gz"}}