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HIPPOCRATES VOL. IV
HERACLEITUS ON THE UNIVERSE
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HIPPOCRATES WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
W. 8T.
H.
S.
JONES,
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CATHARINE'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
VOL
IV
HERACLEITUS ON THE UNIVERSE
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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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
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W. H.
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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