Hippocrates
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Hippocrates of Cos · Hippocrates of Gela · Hippocrates the Lacedaemonian · Hippocrates the tyrant of Gela · Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela · son of Apollodorus · the Asclepiad · the greatest of physicians · the most renowned physician · the physician
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3 expressionsHippocrates of Cos2 mentions
Stromata (Greek) · Protagoras (Greek)
And, according to Hippocrates of Cos, exercise is not only of the body, but also of the soul:
Hippocrates of Chios1 mention
Elements (Greek)
) first laid it down (ἔθετο) that similar segments of circles are in the ratio of the squares on their bases and that he proved this (ἐδείκνυεν) by proving (ἐκ τοῦ δεῖξαι) that the squares on the diameters have the same ratio as the (whole) circles.
Hippocrates the Asclepiad1 mention
Phaedrus (Greek)
Then see what Hippocrates and true reason say about nature.
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian general who fortifies Delium and commands the Athenian army at the battle of Delium, where he is killed.
of the Athenians, not quite a thousand, and Hippocrates the general;
and of your fathers, who, by defeating these men in battle at Aenophyta, under Myronides, once got possession of Boeotia.
Athenians, my advice is given you in a few words, but it is equally availing to brave men, and is intended to remind, rather than exhort you.
The Histories
Tyrant of Gela who came to Zancle's aid but instead betrayed it to the Samians in exchange for a share of the movable goods and slaves.
Most of the Zanclaeans were kept in chains as slaves by Hippocrates himself;
when they learned that their city was taken, the Zanclaeans came to deliver it, calling to their aid Hippocrates the tyrant of Gela, who was their ally.
The price which the Samians agreed to give him was that Hippocrates should take for his share half of the movable goods and slaves in the city, and all that was in the country.
Stromata
Physician cited as source for Euripides's line on healing according to place and season.
But also, when the physician Hippocrates had written, "One must look, then, to season and country and age and diseases," Euripides in a certain hexameter saying says, "Whoever knows how to heal well must look to the diets of those who dwell in a city, having seen the land, in considering the diseases.
And, according to Hippocrates of Cos, exercise is not only of the body, but also of the soul:
Protagoras
A young Athenian of good family, son of Apollodorus, eager to become a pupil of Protagoras.
Hippocrates, hallo!
Has Protagoras wronged you?
And what would you intend to become?
De Anima
Physician cited as an authority defending the soul's principal and locating it in the brain.
But more, both philosophers — against Dicaearchus, Plato, Strato, Epicurus, Democritus, Empedocles, Socrates, Aristotle — and physicians against Andreas and Asclepiades, Herophilus, Erasistratus, Diocles, Hippocrates, and Soranus himself;
This both Hippocrates had, and Asclepiades, and Erasistratus, and Herophilus too, dissector even of grown men, and the gentler Soranus himself — all certain that a living creature is conceived, and so, taking pity on so most unhappy an infancy of this kind, that it should be killed first, lest it be torn alive.
On Fate
Renowned Greek physician who observed and recorded the simultaneous illness of two brothers, attributing it to shared temperament.
Cicero says that Hippocrates, the most renowned physician, left it in writing that he suspected certain brothers to be twins, since, when they had begun to fall ill at the same time and their disease grew worse at the same time and abated at the same time.
On the Nature of the Gods
Greek physician credited with the healing of the sick, as opposed to divine intervention.
nor do I judge the health of many sick men to have been given rather by Hippocrates than by Aesculapius;
Elements
Greek geometer (fl. c. 430 B.C.) credited with an early result on the ratio of similar circle segments, predating Eudoxus.
) first laid it down (ἔθετο) that similar segments of circles are in the ratio of the squares on their bases and that he proved this (ἐδείκνυεν) by proving (ἐκ τοῦ δεῖξαι) that the squares on the diameters have the same ratio as the (whole) circles.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Greek physician cited for combating the doctrine of exclusively male parentage.
Euripides distinctly states that in his day the universal physiological doctrine was that the child descended exclusively from the male parent, and Hippocrates (περὶ παιδίου), in energetically combating this opinion, and contending that the child descended from both parents, seems to admit that it was a prevalent heresy.
Meditations
The physician, cited as an example that mastery of one's craft does not exempt one from death.
Hippocrates, after curing many diseases, himself fell sick and died.
Phaedrus
The physician cited by Phaedrus, and examined further by Socrates, for the principle that one cannot know the nature of the body without knowing the nature of the whole.
Then see what Hippocrates and true reason say about nature.
If Hippocrates the Asclepiad is to be trusted, one cannot know the nature of the body, either, except in that way.
however, we ought not to be content with the authority of Hippocrates, but to see also if our reason agrees with him on examination.
Letters to Lucilius
Ancient Greek physician regarded as founder of a school of medicine.
And so one school is that of Hippocrates, another of Asclepiades, another of Themison.
On the Shortness of Life
Unnamed but identifiable as the physician credited with the aphorism 'Life is short, art is long.'
Hence comes that cry of the greatest of physicians:
Hellenica
A Lacedaemonian officer who, as vice-admiral under Mindarus, writes a terse dispatch reporting disaster, and who later, as Lacedaemonian governor at Calchedon, is killed leading troops out against the Athenians.
Then Hippocrates was killed, and those who were with him fled back into the city.
Thereupon Hippocrates, the Lacedaemonian governor, led forth his troops from the city to do battle;
Meanwhile a letter dispatched to Lacedaemon by Hippocrates, vice-admiral under Mindarus, was intercepted and taken to Athens;