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Hippocrates

Greek physician (c. 460 – c. 370 BC), born at Kos. From Wikidata; Wikipedia.

Lived: 5th–4th c. BC
Kinds of writing: Medicine (52), Epistolography
Dialect: Ionic
In the library: 53 works, 19 with an English translation; 438,175 words analysed

Where to begin

The works here with a translation and the most familiar vocabulary: the fewest rare words to look up. That is vocabulary only; grammar, dialect and ideas may still be demanding.

De prisca medicinaMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish77% common words90 KBAbout
De morbo sacroMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish74% common words77 KBAbout
De aere, aquis, locisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish72% common words120 KBAbout

What Hippocrates wrote

De prisca medicinaMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish77% common words90 KBAbout
De aere, aquis, locisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish72% common words120 KBAbout
PrognosticonMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish72% common words87 KBAbout
De diaeta in morbis acutisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish69% common words101 KBAbout
De diaeta acutorumDe diaeta acutorum (spurium)Medicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only60% common words94 KBAbout
De morbis popularibusEpidemiarumMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish60% common words806 KBAbout
De capitis vulneribusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish70% common words79 KBAbout
De officina mediciMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish68% common words40 KBAbout
De fracturisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish70% common words178 KBAbout
De articulisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish69% common words335 KBAbout
VectiariusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish64% common words84 KBAbout
AphorismiMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish62% common words175 KBAbout
JusjurandumIusiurandumMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish7 KBAbout
LexMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish10 KBAbout
De humoribusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only64% common words35 KBAbout
Prorrheticon IMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only68% common words198 KBAbout
Coa praesagiaMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only55% common words222 KBAbout
De arteMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only78% common words39 KBAbout
De natura hominisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only76% common words63 KBAbout
De salubri diaetaMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only28 KBAbout
De flatibusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only74% common words48 KBAbout
De liquidorum usuMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only29 KBAbout
De morbis i-iiiMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only67% common words559 KBAbout
De genituraMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only33 KBAbout
De natura pueriMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only110 KBAbout
De affectionibusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only67% common words121 KBAbout
De locis in homineMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only68% common words135 KBAbout
De morbo sacroMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish74% common words77 KBAbout
De ulceribusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish57% common words58 KBAbout
De haemorrhoidibusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish20 KBAbout
De fistulisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish29 KBAbout
De diaetaMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only69% common words334 KBAbout
De affectionibus interioribusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only63% common words253 KBAbout
De natura muliebriMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only54% common words203 KBAbout
De octimestri partuMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only14 KBAbout
De muliebribusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only59% common words655 KBAbout
De virginum morbisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only10 KBAbout
De superfoetationeMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only60% common words61 KBAbout
De exsectione foetusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only12 KBAbout
De anatomiaMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only8 KBAbout
De dentitioneMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only14 KBAbout
De glandulisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only27 KBAbout
De carnibusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only71% common words55 KBAbout
De cordeMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only19 KBAbout
De alimentoMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish30 KBAbout
De visuMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only18 KBAbout
De natura ossiumMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only64% common words55 KBAbout
De medicoMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only29 KBAbout
De habitu decentiMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only30 KBAbout
PraeceptionesMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCEnglish29 KBAbout
De crisibusMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only43 KBAbout
De diebus criticisMedicine · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only21 KBAbout
Epistulae, Decretum, OrationesEpistolography · 5th–4th c. BCGreek only69% common words196 KBAbout

In The Painted Stoa

Entries that quote or point to Hippocrates's Greek.

Where Greeks went when doctors failed: a night in the god's hallAsclepius and the healing sleepA sick Greek who could afford the journey might go to a sanctuary of Asclepius, the god of healing, wash, make an offering, and lie down for the night in a special hall, hoping the god would come in a dream and cure him.

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