The Loeb Classical Library: Hippocrates, Volume X: Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness

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The Loeb Classical Library: Hippocrates, Volume X: Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. BarrennessHippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC, learned medicine and philosophy; traveled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he rejected superstition in favor of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as subject to natural laws, in general and in individual people as patients for treatment by medicines and

Early Christian monks beat us to it

as if by the elder Cato

when Athens has just spurned what proved to be the last opportunity to escape from a war it did not have the resources to fight

personal asides

Θα παλέψει ανάμεσα στην αγάπη και στο μίσος που συνιστούν τον έρωτα

mathematical proof

besides supplying all necessary grammatical explanation and some assistance with translation

Trojan Women

Satire I is Juvenal's explanation of why he writes poetry and satire

για να σμίξει μαζί του

της προσωπικής και της συλλογικής περιπέτειας

detailed Notes on the text and comprehensive indexes