{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg049.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg049.local001","title":"De medico","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":"1861","volume":"9","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/pst.000022913487?urlappend=%3Bseq=214","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Hippocrates. De medico. ed. Émile Littré. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Paris, Baillière, 1861. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg049.local001","excerpt":"1. Ἰητροῦ μέν ἐστι προστασίη, ὁρῇν εὔχρως τε καὶ εὔσαρκος πρὸς τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν αὐτῷ φύσιν· ἀξιοῦνται γὰρ ὑπὸ τῶν πολλῶν οἱ μὴ εὖ διακείμενοι τὸ σῶμα οὕτως, οὐδ’ ἂν ἑτέρων ἐπιμεληθῆναι καλῶς· ἔπειτα τὰ περὶ αὐτὸν καθαρίως ἔχειν, ἐσθῆτι χρηστῇ καὶ χρίσμασιν εὐόδμοις, ὀδμὴν ἔχουσιν ἀνυπόπτως· πρὸς ἅπαντα ταῦτα γὰρ ἡδέως ἔχειν ξυμβαίνει τοὺς νοσέοντας. Δεῖ δὲ σκοπέειν τάδε περὶ τὴν ψυχὴν τὸν σώφρονα, μὴ μόνον τὸ σιγᾷν, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τὸν βίον [τὸ] πάνυ εὔτακτον, μέγιστα γὰρ ἔχει πρὸς δόξαν ἀγαθὰ, τὸ δὲ ἦθος εἶναι καλὸν καὶ ἀγαθὸν, τοιοῦτον δ’ ὄντα πᾶσι καὶ σεμνὸν καὶ φιλάνθρωπον· τὸ γὰρ προπετὲς καὶ τὸ πρόχειρον καταφρονεῖται, κἂν πάνυ χρήσιμον ᾖ· σκεπτέον δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς ἐξουσίης· τὰ γὰρ αὐτὰ παρὰ τοῖς αὐτέοις σπανίως ἔχοντα ἀγαπᾶται. Σχήμασι δὲ, ἀπὸ μὲν προσώπου σύννουν μὴ πικρῶς· αὐθάδης γὰρ δοκέει εἶναι καὶ μισάνθρωπος, ὁ δὲ εἰς γέλωτα ἀνιέμενος καὶ λίην ἱλαρὸς φορτικὸς ὑπολαμβάνεται·…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΙΗΤΡΟΥ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/#tlg0627-tlg049-local001-14"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0627.tlg049.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627/tlg049/local001.json.gz"}}