# In Hippocratis De natura hominis 1.20

Galen, In Hippocratis De natura hominis, Book 1. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/galen/in-hippocratis-de-natura-hominis/1.20

Ἀλγέει δ᾿ ὁκόταν τι τουτέων ἔλασσον ἢ πλεῖον εἴη ἢ χωρισθῇ ἐν τῷ σώματι καὶ μὴ κεκραμένον ᾖ τοῖς ξύμπασι. Ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τῆς ὑγιείας τὴν ἀκριβῆ συμμετρίαν ἐν ποσότητι καὶ δυνάμει καὶ τῇ δι᾿ ὅλων ἔθετο κράσει, κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἐπὶ τῆς νόσου τὰ τούτων ἐναντία τίθεται, τὸ μὲν ἔλασσον, ἢ πλέον εἴς τε τὸ ποσὸν τῆς οὐσίας καὶ τὴν δύναμιν ἀναγαγὼν, τὸ δὲ μὴ κεκρᾶσθαι τοῖς πᾶσιν εἰς δυσκρασίαν ἢ ἀνωμαλίαν κράσεως, ἢ ὅπως ἄν τις ὀνομάζειν ἐθέλοι.

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Galen, In Hippocratis De natura hominis, 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.tlg085.local001/.