Hippocrates Lex 4

ed. Émile Littré

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4. Ταῦτα ὦν χρὴ ἐς τὴν ἰητρικὴν τέχνην ἐσενεγκαμένους, καὶ
ἀτρεκέως αὐτέης γνῶσιν λαβόντας, οὕτως ἀνὰ τὰς πόλιας φοιτεῦντας,
μὴ λόγῳ μοῦνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔργῳ ἰητροὺς νομίζεσθαι. Ἡ δὲ
ἀπειρίη, κακὸς θησαυρὸς καὶ κακὸν κειμήλιον τοῖσιν ἔχουσιν αὐτέην,
καὶ ὄναρ καὶ ὕπαρ, εὐθυμίης τε καὶ εὐφροσύνης ἄμοιρος, δειλίης
τε καὶ θρασύτητος τιθήνη. Δειλίη μὲν γὰρ ἀδυναμίην σημαίνει· θρασύτης δὲ, ἀτεχνίην. Δύο γὰρ, ἐπιστήμη τε καὶ δόξα, ὧν τὸ μὲν
ἐπίστασθαι ποιέει, τὸ δὲ ἀγνοεῖν.

Lex. Hippocrates. ed. Émile Littré. Paris. 1844.

Funding provided by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Lex (Greek) (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Vol. 4. Littré, Émile, editor. Paris: Baillière, 1844)

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The Law Perseus (Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Vol. 2. Adams, Francis, translator. New York: William Wood and Company, 1886.) — 4 focus

[4] Having brought all these requisites to the study of medicine, and having acquired a true knowledge of it, we shall thus, in traveling through the cities, be esteemed physicians not only in name but in reality. But inexperience is a bad treasure, and a bad fund to those who possess it, whether in opinion or reality, being devoid of self-reliance and contentedness, and the nurse both of timidity and audacity. For timidity betrays a want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

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