Hippocrates, Praeceptiones, ed. Émile Littré, 12

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12. Ἢν δὲ καὶ εἵνεκα ὁμίλου θέλῃς ἀκρόασιν ποιήσασθαι, οὐκ ἀγακλεῶς ἐπιθυμέεις, μὴ μέντοι γε μετὰ μαρτυρίης ποιητικῆς·
ἀδυναμίην γὰρ ἐμφαίνει φιλοπονίη· ἀπαρνέομαι γὰρ εἰς χρῆσιν
ἑτέρην φιλοπονίην μετὰ πόνου ἱστοριευμένην, διὸ ἐν ἑωυτῇ μούνῃ
αἵρεσιν ἔχουσαν χαρίεσσαν· περιποιήσῃ γὰρ κηφῆνος μετὰ παραπομπῆς
ματαιοκοπίην.

Praeceptiones. Hippocrates. ed. Émile Littré. Paris. 1861.

Funding provided by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Praeceptiones (Greek) (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Vol. 9. Littré, Émile, editor. Paris: Baillière, 1861)

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Παραγγελίαι Perseus (Hippocrates, Vol. 1. Jones, William Henry Samuel, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923 (printing).) — 12 focus

[12] ἤν δὲ καὶ εἵνεκεν ὁμίλου θέλῃς ἀκρόασιν ποιήσασθαι, οὐκ ἀγακλεῶς ἐπιθυμεῖς, μὴ μέντοι γε μετὰ μαρτυρίης ποιητικῆς· ἀδυναμίην γὰρ ἐμφαίνει φιλοπονίης· ἀπαρνέομαι γὰρ ἐς χρῆσιν ἑτέρην φιλοπονίην μετὰ πόνου ἱστοριευμένην, διὸ ἐν ἑωυτῇ μούνῃ αἵρεσιν ἔχουσαν χαρίεσσαν· περιποιήσει γὰρ κηφῆνος μετὰ παραπομπῆς 8 ματαιοκοπίην.

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Precepts Perseus (Hippocrates, Vol. 1. Jones, William Henry Samuel, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923 (printing).) — 12 focus

[12] And if for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry. For I forbid in medical practice an industry not pertinent to the art, and laboriously far-fetched,¹ and which therefore has in itself alone an attractive grace. For you will achieve the empty toil of a drone and a drone’s spoils.²

Hippocrates Praeceptiones 12

ed. Émile Littré

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