# In Hippocratis Aphorismos 5.38

Galen, In Hippocratis Aphorismos, Book 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/galen/in-hippocratis-aphorismos/5.38

Γυναικὶ ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσῃ ἢν ὁ ἕτερος μασθὸς ἰσχνὸς γένηται, δίδυμα ἐχούσῃ θάτερον ἐκτιτρώσκει, καὶ ἢν μὲν δεξιὸς ἰσχνὸς γένηται, τὸ ἄρσεν, ἢν δ’ ὁ ἀριστερὸς, τὸ θῆλυ. Ὅπερ ὁ προγεγραμμένος ἀφορισμὸς ἐπ’ ἀμφοτέρων ἔλεγε τῶν τιτθῶν, τοῦθ’ οὗτος ἐπὶ θατέρου. διὰ δὲ τὴν προειρημένην αἰτίαν τῇ κοινωνίᾳ τῶν φλεβῶν τὸ κατ’ εὐθὺ τοῦ μειωθέντος τιτθοῦ μὲν ὄν ἔμβρυον ἐκτιτρώσκεται, τὸ δ’ ὅτι διδύμων ὄντων, ἄῤῥενός τε καὶ θήλεος, ἐὰν μὲν ὁ δεξιὸς τιτθὸς ἰσχνὸς γένηται, τὸ ἄῤῥεν μόνον, ἐὰν δ’ ὁ ἀριστερὸς, τὸ θῆλυ διαφθείρεται, ἐξ ἐκείνης ἤρτηται τῆς δόξῃς αὐτοῦ, ἔμβρυα τὰ μὲν ἄῤῥενα ἐν τοῖς δεξιοῖς, τὰ δὲ θήλεα ἐν τοῖς ἀριστεροῖς μᾶλλον.

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Galen, In Hippocratis Aphorismos, 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.tlg092.local001/.