# De optima secta ad Thrasybulum 46

Pseudo-Galen, De optima secta ad Thrasybulum, Chapter 46. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/pseudo-galen/de-optima-secta-ad-thrasybulum/46

Νῦν δὲ ἐνδείξομεν τὴν ἀρχὴν τὴν τὸ κωλῦον αὔξεσθαι μὴ ἐνδεικνυμένην, ὅπερ ἐνδείκνυσθαι νομίζουσιν οἱ Μεθοδικοί. πολλῶν γὰρ νοσημάτων ἅμα τῇ ἀρχῇ τὴν ἀκμὴν ἀπολαμβανόντων, ὡς ἀποπληξίας καὶ τῶν ὀξέων νοσημάτων, τί ἄν τις φαίη τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις νοσήμασιν ἐνδείκνυσθαι; τὸ μὲν γὰρ κωλύσειν αὔξεσθαι οὐκ ἐνδείξεται, ἅμα γὰρ τῇ ἀρχῇ τὴν ἀκμὴν ἀπειληφέναι τὸ νόσημα λέξει, ἢ μηδὲν ἐνδείκνυσθαι τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις νοσήμασιν, ἢ ἄλλο τι, καὶ οὐχὶ τὸ κωλύειν αὔξεσθαι· μηδὲν οὖν ἐνδείκνυσθαι λέγειν γνόντα τὸν σκοπὸν, γελοιότατον. εἰ δὲ ἄλλο τι ἐνδείξεται, καὶ οὐχ ὅπερ αὐτοὶ νομίζουσιν, ἀτόπως ἔφασαν αὐτοὶ, τὴν ἀρχὴν τὸ κωλύειν αὔξεσθαι ἀπαιτεῖν.

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Pseudo-Galen, De optima secta ad Thrasybulum, 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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