Hippocrates

When Hippocrates, who was still at Delium, received tidings of the advance of the Boeotians, he sent to his troops, with orders to throw themselves into line, and himself joined them soon after, leaving three hundred horse at Delium, both to defend it if any one came against it, and to watch their opportunity and fall upon the Boeotians during the engagement.

When the armies were formed in line, and now on the point of engaging, Hippocrates, the general, passed along the Athenian ranks, and encouraged them, by speaking as follows:

while Hippocrates was still staying behind, and arranging the guards, and how they should complete such parts of the out-works as remained to be finished.

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.

But Hippocrates, when he came bringing his army to aid them, put Scythes the monarch of Zancle and his brother Pythogenes in chains for losing the city, and sent them away to the city of Inyx.

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:

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.

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.

nor do I judge the health of many sick men to have been given rather by Hippocrates than by Aesculapius;

) 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.

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.

' And Buqrāṭ spoke truly when he said in the Aphorisms:

he mentioned some treatment of epilepsy and said, this profits only in the epilepsy whose cause is the humors and the matter, but as for the epilepsy ⟨.

Hippocrates, after curing many diseases, himself fell sick and died.

And so one school is that of Hippocrates, another of Asclepiades, another of Themison.

Hence comes that cry of the greatest of physicians:

Meanwhile a letter dispatched to Lacedaemon by Hippocrates, vice-admiral under Mindarus, was intercepted and taken to Athens;

Thereupon Hippocrates, the Lacedaemonian governor, led forth his troops from the city to do battle;

Then Hippocrates was killed, and those who were with him fled back into the city.