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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB, LL.D. EDITED BY fT. E. PAGE, fK CAPPS, '-,. A. POST, l.h.d. C.H., LITT.D. fW. H. ph.d., ix.d. E. H. D. WARMINGTON, HIPPOCRATES VOL. IV HERACLEITUS ON THE UNIVERSE ROUSE, litt.d. m.a., f.r.hist.soc. :,£«.• ^ >, COS, THE PLANE TREE. REPRODUCED FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BV MISS M.HENRV HIPPOCRATES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY W. 8T. H. S. JONES, Litt.D. CATHARINE'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE VOL IV HERACLEITUS ON THE UNIVERSE LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMLIX TO F. M. R. First printed 1931 Reprinted 1931, 1943, 1953, 1959 Printed in Great Britain CONTENTS HIPPOCRATES PAGE the plane tree Frontispiece PREFACE Vli INTRODUCTION jx NATURE OF MAN 1 REGIMEN IN HEALTH 43 HUMOURS 61 APHORISMS 97 REGIMEN I 223 REGIMEN II 297 REGIMEN III 367 DREAMS 42] HERACLEITUS ON THE UNIVERSE 449 PREFACE the Loeb translation of of preparing the volume my leisure for over five years, the most laborious part being the collation of the manuscripts Urb. 64, A, M, V, 6, C, Holkhamensis and Caius -|£. I have not quoted all the variants, the perhaps not the greater number of them rule 1 have tried to follow is to record only those readings that are intrinsically interesting and those The readings that seriously affect the meaning. recorded by my predecessors are often wrongly transcribed knowing by experience the risk of mistakes in collations, however carefully done, I am sure that there are some errors in the notes in this volume. The readings of Urb. 64 are here printed for the first time, as also are many from the manuscripts M, V. I wish to thank my pupil, Mr. A. W. Poole, for help in preparing the index. This book Hippocrates. has taken all completes The work ; ; W. H. S. J. vn INTRODUCTION I INTENTIONAL OBSCURITY WRITINGS IN ANCIENT To a modern it appears somewhat strange that a writer should be intentionally obscure. An author wishes to be easily understood, knowing that neither critics nor readers will tolerate obscurity of any kind. But in ancient times the public taste was different the reader, or hearer, was not always averse to being mystified, and authors tried to satisfy this appetite ; for puzzles. It was probably the oracles, with their ambiguous or doubtful replies, that set the fashion, which was followed most closely by those writers who affected an oracular style. The difficulties of Pindar and of the choral odes of Aeschylus, who was imitated in later dramatists, were not entirely or even mainly due to the struggle of lofty thought seeking to find adequate expression in an as yet inadequate this by medium. They were to a great extent the result of an effort to create an atmosphere congenial to So Plato, who can religion and religious mystery. when his purpose be transparently clear, almost unnatural obscurity when he wishes to attune his readers' mind to truths that transcend human understanding. Much of the Phaedrus and of the Symposium, the Number in the Republic, and a great part of the Timaeus, are oracular affects it suit