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6 entries for Hippocrates

δ447ΔημόκριτοςDemocritus, Demokritos… it. [4] See OCD(4) 950 'Metrodorus(2)'. [5] The inclusion of Hippocrates is the result of a mistake by the author or his compilator who took an incorrectly-understood scholion to the article "Hippocrates" (see iota …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1026ἌκρωνAkron, Acron… purify the air. The same accomplishment is elsewhere attributed to Hippocrates. Pinault (below) shows that the story is probably fictional. Nevertheless, the idea that epidemics had been or could be stopped by fires entered …Matched in noteshighmedium
ι154Ἱερὰ νόσοςsacred diseaseArtemidorus 2.12. For the Hippocratic treatise on the "sacred disease" (epilepsy), see web address 1; and generally LSJ s.v. i(ero/s, IV.8.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3904Ἐφήμεροςephemeral, for a day… to fevers which recur daily, generally translated 'quotidian.' See e.g. Hippocrates Epidemics 1.6.Matched in noteshighshort
ε4074Ἑψῶνboiling… some forms from e(ye/w are doubtfully attested in Herodotus and Hippocrates, and e(ya/w is late. See also epsilon 4054, epsilon 4059. [3] This (unidentifiable) quotation illustrates a contracted form of the nominative plural masculine …Matched in noteshighshort
ε513Ἐκνεφίαςcloud-produced… medical texts, is illustrated by Galen, Linguarum seu dictionum exoletarum Hippocratis explicatio, vol 19.96.5 Kuehn, where e)knefi/as o)/mbros is "the rain coming with sun" (evidently mentioned for its influence on human health: cf. Oribasius …Matched in noteshighshort