Ἴασις
healing, cure
Translated by Catharine Roth27 Mar 2006Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Healing] and relieving are different. For some diseases are treated with temporary treatments, which is relieving; but others are fully treated, which is healing. So Sophocles in Electra [writes]: "whence would you find relief for my sufferings, for which it is not possible to see a cure?" That is, in no manner do our [troubles] have a better outcome.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἴασις καὶ ἄρηξις διαφέρει. τῶν γὰρ νοσημάτων, τὰ μὲν θεραπεύεται προσκαίροις θεραπείαις, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἄρηξις· τὰ δὲ θεραπεύεται παντελῶς, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἴασις. φησὶν οὖν Σοφοκλῆς ἐν Ἠλέκτρᾳ· πόθεν δ' ἂν εὕροις τῶν ἐμῶν σὺ πημάτων ἄρηξιν, οἷς ἴασις οὐκ ἔνεστιν ἰδεῖν; τουτέστι κατ' οὐδένα τρόπον προκόπτει τὰ ἡμέτερα ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον.