{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0719.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0719.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0719.tlg002.local001","title":"Περὶ αἰτίων καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν","titleGreek":"Περὶ αἰτίων καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aretaeus of Cappadocia","authorityName":"ARETAEUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0719-aretaeus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0719-aretaeus/","editors":["Francis Adams"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Cultural Heritage Langauge Technologies","sourceTitle":"The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian","edition":null,"publisher":"Syndenham Society","place":"London","date":"1856","volume":null,"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/b21510271/page/50/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aretaeus Of Cappadocia. Περὶ αἰτίων καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν. ed. Francis Adams. The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian, London, Syndenham Society, 1856. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0719.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"χρονίων νούσων πόνος μὲν πουλὺς, χρόνος δὲ μακρὸς συντήξιος, καὶ ἀβέβαιος ἡ ἄλθεξις. ἢ γὰρ οὐδʼ ἐξηλάθησαν ἐς τὸ πάμπαν, ἢ ἐπὶ σμικρῇ ἁμαρτωλῇ παλινδρομέουσι αἱ νοῦσοι. οὔτε γὰρ ἀτρεμέειν οἱ νοσέοντες τολμέουσι ἐς τέλος· ἀτὰρ ἠδὲ ἁμαρτάνουσι ἐν τῇσι μακρῇσι διαίτῃσι, κἢν ἀτρεμέωσι· ἢν δὲ καὶ πόνος ἔῃ ἐπιπόνου ἰήσιος, δίψης, λιμοῦ, φαρμάκων πικρῶν καὶ ὀδυνωδέων, ἢ τομῆς, ἢ καύσιος, ὧνπέρ ἐστι ἐν τῇσι δολιχῇσι νούσοισι χρέος, ὑποδιδρήσκουσι οἱ κάμνοντες, ὡς θανάτου δῆθεν αὐτέου ὀρεγόμενοι. ἔνθα δὴ ἀρετὴ διαείδεται ἀνδρὸς ἰητροῦ, καὶ μακροθυμίης, καὶ ποικιλίης, καὶ χάριτος ἀβλαβοῦς τῶν ἡδέων, καὶ παραιφάσιος· ἀτὰρ καὶ τὸν νοσέοντα χρὴ ἄλκιμον ἔμμεναι, καὶ ξυνίστασθαι τῷ ἰητρῷ κατὰ τοῦ νοσήματος. οὐ γὰρ τοῦ σώματος μοῦνον ἀπρὶξ λαβόμενον ταχὺ ἀνασμύχει τε καὶ δάπτει, ἀλλὰ ἐς πολλὰ καὶ τὴν αἰσθησίην ἐκτρέπει, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ἐκμαίνει ἀκρασίῃ τοῦ σώματος. τοιήνδε τὴν μανίην καὶ τὴν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ *α′.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0719.tlg002.local001/#tlg0719-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ *β′.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0719.tlg002.local001/#tlg0719-tlg002-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0719.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0719.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0719/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}