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Galen: Quod Animi Mores Corporis Temperamenta Sequantur (The Faculties of the Soul follow the Mixtures of the Body)

Kühn 1822

καὶ τὰς ὁρμὰς αὐθάδεας τε καὶ ἰδιογνώμονας. καὶ τί γὰρ, ἵνα μὴ πολλῶν μνημονεύσω ῥήσεων αὐτοῦ, ἐφεξῆς ἐρεῖ; εὑρήσεις γὰρ ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ τῆς χώρης τῇ φύσει ἀκολουθοῦντα καὶ τὰ εἴδεα τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ τοὺς τρόπους. αὐτὴν δὲ δηλονότι τὴν χώρην κατὰ τὸ θερμόν τε καὶ ψυχρὸν καὶ ξηρὸν καὶ ὑγρὸν ἑτέρης χώρης διαφέρειν, εἴρηκε πολλάκις ἐν τῷ συγγράμματι. διὰ γοῦν πάλιν τῶν ἐφεξῆς φησιν· ὅκου μὲν γὰρ ἡ γῆ πικρὰ, καὶ μαλθακὴ, καὶ ἔνυγρος, καὶ τὰ ὕδατα κάρτα μετέωρα ἔχουσα, ὥστε θερμὰ εἶναι τοῦ θέρεος, καὶ τοῦ χειμῶνος ψυχρὰ, καὶ τῶν ὡρέων καλῶς κεῖται, ἐνταῦθα καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι σαρκώδεές εἰσι, καὶ ἄναρθροι, καὶ ὑγροὶ, καὶ ταλαίπωροι, καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν κακοὶ, ὥστε ἐπὶ πολὺ τό γε ῥᾴθυμον καὶ τὸ ὑπνηλὸν ἔνεστιν ἐν αὐτοῖς ἰδεῖν, ἔς τε τὰς τέχνας παχέες, καὶ οὐ λεπτοὶ, οὐδὲ ὀξέες. ἐν τούτοις πάλιν ἐδήλωσε σαφέστατα, μὴ μόνον τὰ ἤθη ταῖς τῶν ὡρῶν κράσεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἀμβλύτητα τῆς διανοίας, ὥσπερ οὖν καὶ τὴν σύνεσιν ἑπομένην. ὅμοια δὲ τούτοις καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἐχομένην ῥῆσιν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ γέγραπται αὐτοῖς ὀνόμασιν. ὅκου

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Title: Galen: Quod Animi Mores Corporis Temperamenta Sequantur
English: The Faculties of the Soul follow the Mixtures of the Body
Original: Ὅτι ταῖς τοῦ σώματος κράσεσιν αἱ τῆς ψυχῆς δυνάμεις ἕπονται

Domains: Medicine

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Type: Original

Bibliographic information

Publication type: Book

Author/Editor: Kühn, Karl Gottlob

Title: Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia

Published: 1822

Volume: 4

Pages: 767-822

Publisher: Cnobloch, Leipzig

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