# In Hippocratis Epidemiarum I 6.4.26

Galen, In Hippocratis Epidemiarum I, Book 6, Chapter 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/galen/in-hippocratis-epidemiarum-i/6.4.26

Αὐχμῶν ἐπὶ γῆς, οἰωνῶν γένος εὐθενεῖ. Οἱ γὰρ ὄρνιθες, ὡς ἂν ξηρότεροι τὴν κρᾶσιν ἡμῶν ὄντες, ἐν τοῖς αὐχμοῖς ὑγιαίνουσι μᾶλλον. ἴσμεν δὲ καὶ τροφαῖς αὐτοὺς ξηροτέραις ὀλίγῳ τε ποτῷ χρωμένους, οὐχ ὥσπερ οἱ σύες ὕδατι συνεχῶς λούεσθαι ποθοῦντες, ἐμπίπλασθαί τε συνεχῶς οὐκ ὀλίγου ποτοῦ.

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Galen, In Hippocratis Epidemiarum I, 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.
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