# De natura ossium 11

Hippocrates, De natura ossium, Chapter 11. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippocrates/de-natura-ossium/11

11. Τὰ ὀστέα τῷ σώματι στάσιν καὶ ὀρθότητα καὶ εἶδος παρέχονται· τὰ δὲ νεῦρα κάμψιν καὶ ξύντασιν καὶ ἔκτασιν· αἱ δὲ σάρκες καὶ τὸ δέρμα πάντων ξύνδεσιν καὶ ξύνταξιν. Αἱ φλέβες διὰ τοῦ σώματος κεχυμέναι πνεῦμα καὶ ῥεῦμα καὶ κίνησιν παρέχονται, ἀπὸ μιῆς πολλαὶ διαβλαστάνουσαι, καὶ αὕτη μὲν ἡ μία ὕθεν ἦρκται καὶ ᾗ τετελεύτηκεν οὐκ οἶδα· κύκλου γὰρ γεγενημένου ἀρχὴ οὐχ εὑρέθη. Τὰς δ’ ἀποφυάδας αὐτῆς, ὅθεν ἤρτηνται καὶ ᾗ παύονται τοῦ σώματος, καὶ ὡς ἡ μίη ταύτῃσιν ὁμολογέει, καὶ ἐν ὁποίοις τόποις τέτανται τοῦ σώματος, ἐγὼ δηλώσω.

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Hippocrates, De natura ossium, ed. Émile Littré. 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/tlg0627.tlg048.local001/.