You are on the island of Cos, home of Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. His Aphorisms open: Life is short, and then this. The art is medicine: the sentence goes on to say the physician must be ready to do what is right himself, and to make the patient and the attendants work with him.
It is written in Ionic, the dialect of Cos and the coast of Asia Minor: Athenians would have said μακρά for μακρή.
This lesson takes for granted the lessons before it. Not done yet: 1 Nothing in excess, 2 Know yourself, 3 Everything moves on, 4 Life is short.
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.
4 new words still to look at.