The Loeb Classical Library: Hippocrates, Volume V: Affections. Diseases 1–2

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The Loeb Classical Library: Hippocrates, Volume V: Affections. Diseases 1–2Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC, learned medicine and philosophy; traveled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he rejected superstition in favor of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as subject to natural laws, in general and in individual people as patients for treatment by medicines and

never available in paperback - nothing has ever replaced Monro's original text

surviving evidence offers plentiful testimony to the importance of athletic activity in Greek culture

and raises the question of what a man can do to secure lasting renown

Ancient Romans liked money

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and elucidates grammatical peculiarities and passages of unusual difficulty

literary and stylistic issues

We meet Demeter

including square root and cube root

the second includes Eucharisticus (“Thanksgiving”) by Paulinus Pellaeus

doctors and plagiarists

In 399 he was acquitted on a charge of profaning the Mysteries and in 391–390 took part in an abortive peace embassy to Sparta