The MouseionHippocratesThe Oath
The OathIusiurandum
By Hippocrates. Jusjurandum · title translated from the Latin
- Kind of writing
- Medicine
- Dialect
- Ionic
- Written
- 5th–4th c. BC
- Length
- 297 words analysed
- In the library
- 2 Greek texts, 2 English translations
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textHippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Vol. 4. Littré, Émile, editor. Paris: Baillière, 1844
- Greek textHippocrates, Vol. 1. Jones, William Henry Samuel, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923 (printing).
- English translationHippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Vol. 2. Adams, Francis, translator. New York: William Wood and Company, 1886.
- English translationHippocrates, Vol. 1. Jones, William Henry Samuel, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923 (printing).
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work'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.Healing herbs, killing cups and the smoke of the ScythiansDrugs and poisonsThe Greeks had one word for a medicine, a poison and a magic spell: pharmakon.