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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2023

Sophia Xenophontos
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Aristotle University, Thessaloniki

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For this reason it behoves us to transfer wisdom into medicine and medicine into wisdom (μετάγειν τὴν σοφίην ἐς τὴν ἰητρικὴν καὶ τὴν ἰητρικὴν ἐς τὴν σοφίην). For a physician being a philosopher is like a god (ἰητρὸς γὰρ φιλόσοφος ἰσόθεος).

[Hippocrates], Decorum 5, 27.1-3 Heiberg = IX.232.8-10 Littré

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  • Epigraph
  • Sophia Xenophontos, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
  • Book: Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
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  • Sophia Xenophontos, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
  • Book: Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
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