# De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus I-VI 9.2.18

Galen, De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus I-VI, Book 9, Chapter 2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/galen/de-simplicium-medicamentorum-temperamentis-ac-facultatibus-i-vi/9.2.18

[ιη΄. Περὶ ὀφίτου.] Καὶ ὀφίτης δὲ καλούμενος λίθος καυθεὶς ῥυπτικῆς τε καὶ θρυπτικῆς ἐστι δυνάμεως, ὥσπερ γε καὶ ἡ ὕαλος. ἱκανῶς γὰρ καὶ αὐτὴ θρύπτει πινομένη μετ’ οἴνου λευκοῦ καὶ λεπτοῦ τοὺς ἐν κύστει λίθους, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἄν τις αὐτὴν ἐν τοῖς λίθους ἀριθμοίη.

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Galen, De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus I-VI, ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0057.tlg075.local001/.