Ἰατρός
doctor
Translated by David Whitehead19 Apr 2006Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[It has] a short [iota] in Aristophanes in Wealth: "what doctor, then, is there now in the city?".1
But in Homer [sc. it has a long one]: "a doctor man, you see [...]".2
"A doctor [is] an expert, someone who not only heals but also knows the basis for the healing".3
But [sc. note also the term] medical-practitioners. [Note] that doctors also wrote about airs, mountains and waters. There are compositions of Hippokrates written on such subjects: about airs, places and waters.4
[Note] that doctors are in the habit, through boastfulness, of naming plants after their native countries, such as 'Cyrenean' juice, 'Lakonian' spurge.5
And present-day ones [speak of] Pontic Rhubarb and non-Greek Rhubarb.6
For doctoring see under 'health' [upsilon 23].
But in Homer [sc. it has a long one]: "a doctor man, you see [...]".2
"A doctor [is] an expert, someone who not only heals but also knows the basis for the healing".3
But [sc. note also the term] medical-practitioners. [Note] that doctors also wrote about airs, mountains and waters. There are compositions of Hippokrates written on such subjects: about airs, places and waters.4
[Note] that doctors are in the habit, through boastfulness, of naming plants after their native countries, such as 'Cyrenean' juice, 'Lakonian' spurge.5
And present-day ones [speak of] Pontic Rhubarb and non-Greek Rhubarb.6
For doctoring see under 'health' [upsilon 23].