The library of Hippocrates
Across 1 of Hippocrates’s 20 works in the library, the harvest finds 1 named source — 1 citation in all. The library holds every one of them. In the other direction, 9 works in the library quote Hippocrates back — 9 citations.
most drawn on De diaeta acutorum
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De diaeta acutorum Hippocrates 1 citation
wherefore the healer must take heed that he be not unaware of any of the occasions, neither those that go by reasoning, nor of how many things ought to appear in an even or an odd number;
de diaeta acutorum · presents the treatise's own doctrine as authoritative teaching ¶
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9 citations · from 9 works9 works in the library quote Hippocrates — 9 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.
through Hippocrates 7 citations · Aphorisms 1 citation · De diaeta acutorum 1 citation
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The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Hippocrates is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
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On Fate Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
The passage explicitly states that Hippocrates 'left it in writing' his suspicion, treated as an authoritative medical record cited by Cicero.
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.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 citation
Cited as the medical authority whose dictum Euripides versifies.
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.
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Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera Demosthenes 1 citation · 5 passages
The speaker cites Hippocrates's decree granting the Plataeans citizenship as an authoritative model of careful, deserved legislation, contrasting its safeguards with the lawlessness of Stephanus and Neaera's case.
On motion of Hippocrates it is decreed that the Plataeans shall be Athenians from this day, and shall have full rights as citizens, and that they shall share in all the privileges in which the Athenians share, both civil and religious, save any priesthood or religious office which belongs to a particular family, and that they shall not be eligible to the office of the nine archons but their descendants shall be.
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation
Named as the treatise in which Hippocrates argued against a prevailing doctrine, reported neutrally by Maine.
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.
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De diaeta acutorum Hippocrates 1 citation
The passage is itself the treatise attributed to Hippocrates, presenting its own diagnostic and therapeutic doctrine as authoritative medical teaching, functioning as a self-citation of the school's method.
wherefore the healer must take heed that he be not unaware of any of the occasions, neither those that go by reasoning, nor of how many things ought to appear in an even or an odd number;
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Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī 1 endorsed 1 citation
A named work of a named author is quoted and explicitly affirmed as true.
' And Buqrāṭ spoke truly when he said in the Aphorisms:
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Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī 1 citation
Cited to lend the prestige of medicine to the twofold aetiology.
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 ⟨.
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On the Shortness of Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 citation
The physician's maxim is invoked as an authoritative opening statement supporting the essay's theme.
“Life is short, art is long.
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Hellenica Xenophon 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage explicitly reports the content of a specific written dispatch, identified by its author, without the narrator endorsing or refuting it, merely recounting that it was intercepted and taken to Athens.
Meanwhile a letter dispatched to Lacedaemon by Hippocrates, vice-admiral under Mindarus, was intercepted and taken to Athens;
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