You are on the island of Cos, off the coast of Asia Minor. Hippocrates was born there around 460 BC; he is called the Father of Medicine, though very little is known for certain about what he himself wrote.
The Aphorisms are short rules for doctors, and this is how the first one begins. The rest of the sentence is the next lesson.
From this lesson on there is no letters stage: sound each word out yourself. The alphabet is still in the fold above. The help you have outgrown is kept under Lessons completed.
This lesson takes for granted the lessons before it. Not done yet: 1 Nothing in excess, 2 Know yourself, 3 Everything moves on.
Forgot how a letter is read? The whole alphabet
ClickTap a word to see what it means here, as you would in the reader. The words with a dotted line are new: sound each one out and guess its meaning before you look.
3 new words still to look at.