De venereis Galenus Kühn, Karl Gottlob Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Published original versions of the electronic texts A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mark Schiefsky, Harvard University Gregory R. Crane, Universität Leipzig Uwe Vagelpohl, University of Warwick Keyboarding Digital Divide Data Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library Gregory R. Crane Project Manager (University of Leipzig) Matt Munson Project Assistant (University of Leipzig) Annette Geßner Lead Developer (University of Leipzig) Thibault Clérice Technical Advisor Bruce Robertson Revised edition of the originally published versions of the electronic texts. 2024 To reuse the Kühn’s edition for the Galenus verbatim project, we (silently) corrected the texts as found in the First1KGreek repository, whether there were mistakes of transcriptions, errors in the metadata or missing parts of the text. We added bibliographical references to the previous editions referred to in Kühn’s edition as "Bas." and "Chart.": that of the Γαληνοῦ Ἅπαντα published in Basel (hence referred to as #Basel) and the Operum Hippocratis Coi, et Galeni Pergameni of René Chartier (hence referred to as #Chartier); we changed the naming schemes of the milestones indicating the corresponding Basel and Chartier pages in Kühn’s edition, and added the corresponding Basel and Chartier volume number. The editions other than that of Kühn were given milestones indicating the corresponding Kühn volume and pages when they were missing. Treatises from Kühn’s edition were given line numbers. We also added elements of structuration that were present in Kühn’s edition but were missing in the TEI, mainly the division of chapters into sections in some treatises, as well as the header for those sections. The text of headings containing the name of chapter and numbers of chapters and sections have been restored, as well as the original symbols as they appear in Kühn’s printed edition. The text numbered tlg0057.tlg096 that was separately edited was reinserted in the tlg0057.tlg095 in accordance with its location within Kühn’s edition. For details, see the revisionDesc section. Galenus verbatim, funded by the Institut universitaire de France (2019-2024), the Initiative humanités biomédicales de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université (2021-2024) and the Institut des sciences de l’Antiquité de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université (2024-2025) Nathalie Rousseau, Sorbonne Université Editor-in-Chief, Galenus verbatim Galenus verbatim, funded by the Institut universitaire de France (2019-2024), the Initiative humanités biomédicales de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université (2021-2024) and the Institut des sciences de l’Antiquité de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université (2024-2025) Nathalie Rousseau, Sorbonne Université Lead Developer, Optéos Frédéric Glorieux Digital Editor, Galenus verbatim Galenus verbatim, funded by the Institut universitaire de France (2019-2024), the Initiative humanités biomédicales de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université (2021-2024) and the Institut des sciences de l’Antiquité de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université (2024-2025) Cahal Taaffe Digital Editor, Galenus verbatim Lucas Lemperriere, Université de Rouen Galenus verbatim, funded by the Institut universitaire de France (2019-2024), the Initiative humanités biomédicales de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université (2021-2024) and the Institut des sciences de l’Antiquité de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université (2024-2025) Institut universitaire de France Initiative humanités biomédicales de l’Alliance Sorbonne Université A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation University of Leipzig Germany tlg0057.tlg035.1st1K-grc2.xml Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License 2016 Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia Galenus Kühn, Karl Gottlob Cnobloch Leipzig 5 911-914 1823 HathiTrust Γαληνοῦ Ἅπαντα. Galeni Pergameni Opera omnia Galenus Camerarius, Joachim Fuchs, Leonhart Gemusaeus, Hieronymus Cratander Basel 4 302 1538 BIU Santé, Medica Magni Hippocratis Coi, et Claudii Galeni Pergameni archiatrΩn uniuersa quae extant Galenus Chartier, René [s.n.] Paris 6 509-510 1638 BIU Santé, Medica

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Original symbols are maintained as they appear in Kühn’s printed edition. In the Greek text, the following symbols are used: ϛ (stigma: U+03DB), ϟ (koppa: U+03DF), ϡ (sampi: U+03E1), S" (as Galen describes this symbol as a ‘Roman S’ [Ῥωμαϊκὸν S: 19.757.6-7], the Unicode character 𐅵 for ‘half’, U+10175, is not appropriate), 𐆃 (litra: U+10183), 𐅻 (drachma: U+1017B), 𐆈 (gramma: U+10188), 𐅼 (obol: U+1017C), 𐅽 (two obols: U+1017D), Ͻ (capital lunate reverse sigma: U+03FD), 𐆅 (xestes: U+10185), 𐆂ο (kyathos: U+10182+ super omicron 03BF), ♃ (Jupiter: U+2643). In the pseudo-Galenic text Prognostica de decubitu ex mathematica scientia (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0530.tlg024.verbatim-grc1), the following astrological symbols are also used: ♒ (aquarius: U+2652), ♈ (aries: U+2648), ♋ (cancer: U+264B), ♑ (capricorn: U+2651), ♀ (female sign: U+2640), ♊ (gemini: U+264A), ☾ (last quarter moon: U+263E), ♌ (leo: U+264C), ♎ (libra: U+264E), ♂ (male sign: U+2642), ☿ (mercury: U+263F), ☍ (opposition: U+260D), ♓ (pisces: U+2653), ♐ (sagittarius: U+2650), ♄ (saturn: U+2644), ♏ (scorpio: U+264F), ☉ (sun: U+2609), ♉ (taurus: U+2649), ♍ (virgo: U+264D), □ (white square: U+25A1).

The Unicode character dexia keraia (U+0374) is used to indicate the numeric use of Greek letters.

 Greek First round of revisions for publication on the Galenus verbatim website. Added bibliographical information on the editions referred to in Kühn’s edition as "Bas." and "Chart." Corrected and added milestone tags for the missing page changes of both Basel and Chartier editions when they were missing. Punctual correction to the digitization of Kühn’s text. Correction and additions of the sections <div> level when they were missing to better reflect the structure of Kühn’s edition. Modification to the subtype of some <div> to better reflect the structure of Kühn’s edition. Added <label> elements for all headings of chapters and sections. Added <l> elements for verse lines and <lg> elements for linegroups. Symbols that the initial transcription rendered as abbreviations have been restored as they appear in Kühn’s printed edition. For details, see the editorialDecl section. Added line number. The text of headings containing the name of chapter and numbers of chapters and sections have been restored and marked with <label> and <num> elements. All the indentations have been restored. The transcription of the Greek numerals has been verified. The correct Unicode character dexia keraia (U+0374) has been restored to indicate the numeric use of Greek letters in place of the erroneous acute accent (U+0384) that appeared in the initial transcription. The transcription of the punctuation has been reviewed overall, with line-by-line checks for suspicious character sequences. In particular, numerous spurious punctuation marks (dots, commas, apostrophes) present in the initial transcription but corresponding to print smudges in Kühn’s printed edition have been silently removed; whereas punctuation errors originating in the printed edition have been marked up by a <choice> element, in accordance with the principles stated in the editorialDecl section.
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Ἀφροδισίων μὲν κατὰ μὲν Ἐπίκουρον οὐδεμία χρῆσις ὑγιεινή· κατὰ δὲ τἀληθὲς ἐκ διαλειμμάτων τηλικούτων, ὡς ἐπὶ ταῖς χρήσεσιν ἄνθρωπον αὐτὸν αὑτοῦ κουφότερον καὶ εὐπνούστερον δοκεῖν γεγονέναι. ὁ δὲ καιρὸς τῆς χρήσεως, ὅταν ἀκριβῶς μέσον ᾖ τῶν ἔξωθεν περιστάσεων ἁπασῶν τὸ σῶμα, μήθ’ ὑπερπεπληρωμένον, μήτ’ ἐνδεὲς, μήθ’ ὑπερεψυγμένον, μήθ’ ὑπερτεθερμασμένον, μήτ’ ἐξηρασμένον, μήθ’ ὑγρασμένον ἀμέτρως. εἰ δὲ καὶ διαμαρτάνοιέν ποτε κατά τι, μικρὸν μὲν ἔστω τὸ ἁμαρτανόμενον. ἄμεινον δὲ τῷ τεθερμασμένῳ μᾶλλον ἢ ἐψυγμένῳ, καὶ πεπληρωμένῳ μᾶλλον ἢ κεκενωμένῳ, καὶ ὑγρασμένῳ μᾶλλον ἢ ἐξηρασμένῳ τῷ σώματι χρῆσθαι τοῖς ἀφροδισίοις. οἱ μὲν οὖν τὴν ἀσθενῆ δύναμιν ἔχοντες ἀπὸ τῆς λαγνείας εἰς ἐσχάτην ἀῤῥωστίαν ἀφικνοῦνται· οἱ δὲ ἰσχυρὰν καὶ νοσοῦντες ἀπὸ φλέγματος περιουσίας τῷ διαφορεῖν ἐπιπλέον τοὺς χυμοὺς ἀβλαβῆ ἔχουσι τὴν χρῆσιν αὐτῶν· οὕτω γὰρ τοῖς ὑγροῖς καὶ θερμοῖς ἐστι, καὶ ὅσοι φύσει πολύσπερμοι. ἀλλὰ καὶ θερμαίνει τὸ σῶμα τοῖς ἐῤῥωμένην ἔχουσι τὴν δύναμιν ἡ λαγνεία, τοῖς δὲ ἀσθενέσιν ἐν μὲν τῷ παραχρῆμα θερμαίνει, ψύχει δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα γενναίως. ἔνιοι μὲν οὖν εὐθέως ἐπὶ ταῖς συνουσίαις ἀπὸ νεότητος ἀσθενεῖς γίνονται, τινὲς δὲ, εἰ μὴ συνεχῶς χρῶνται, βαρύνονται τὴν κεφαλὴν, ἀσώδεις τε καὶ πυρετώδεις γίνονται, καὶ χεῖρον ὀρέγονται, καὶ ἧττον πέττουσι. τοιαύτης γοῦν ἐνίους ὄντας φύσεως, εἶτ’ ἐγκρατεῖς ἀφροδισίων χρήσεως γενομένους, ναρκώδεις τε καὶ δυσκινήτους ἔγνωμεν ἀποτελεσθέντας, ἐνίους δὲ καὶ σκυθρωποὺς ἀλόγως καὶ δυσέλπιδας ὁμοίως τοῖς μελαγχολικοῖς· ταῦτα δὲ παυόμενα ταχέως ἐπὶ ταῖς τῶν ἀφροδισίων χρήσεσι. ταῦτ’ ἀναλογιζομένῳ μοι μεγάλως φαίνεται βλάπτειν ἡ τοῦ σπέρματος ἐπίσχεσις, ἐφ’ ὧν αὐτό τε φύσει κακοχυμότερον καὶ πλέον, ἀργότερός τε ὁ βίος, καὶ τῶν ἀφροδισίων μὲν ἡ χρῆσις πρότερον μὲν ἱκανὴ πάνυ, μετὰ ταῦτα δὲ ἀθρόως ἐγκρατεῖς ἐγενήθησαν, ἰσχυροί τε καὶ νέοι. τούτοις ἡ τοῦ σώματος ἕξις εἰς ἀραιότητα πλέον ἤπερ ἡ δύναμις εἰς ἀῤῥωστίαν ἀλλοιοῦται· καί τις ἐπανόρθωσις διὰ τῶν συναγόντων καὶ σφιγγόντων γίνεται αὐτοῖς, ὁποῖόν ἐστι παρασκευαστικὸν γυμνάσιον. εἰ δὲ δὴ καὶ ψύξις τις ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀφροδισίοις ἐγγίγνοιτο, καὶ κατὰ τοῦτ’ ἂν εἴη τῷ παρασκευαστικῷ γυμνασίῳ χρηστέον, ἐπεγείρει γὰρ τὴν θερμότητα. τῆς δὲ ὥρας τοῦ ἔτους ἐπιτρεπούσης, οὐδὲ τῆς ψυχρολουσίας ἀφεκτέον. ἐδέσματα δὲ τῷ πλήθει μὲν ἐλάττω, τῇ ποιότητι δὲ καὶ ὑγρότερα δοτέον, ἵνα καὶ πέψῃ καλῶς αὐτὰ, καὶ τὴν ἀφροδισίων ἐπανορθώσηται ξηρότητα. χρὴ δὲ οὐδὲ ψυχρότερα τὴν κρᾶσιν, ἀλλὰ τῆς μέσης ἰδέας τῶν θερμαινόντων ὑπάρχειν αὐτά. διότι γὰρ ἐξ ἀφροδισίων ἀραιότερον ἅμα καὶ ἀσθενέστερον, ψυχρότερόν τε καὶ ξηρότερον ἀποτελεῖται τὸ σῶμα, χρὴ δήπου τὰ πυκνοῦντα καὶ θερμαίνοντα καὶ τὴν δύναμιν ἀναῤῥωννύντα προσφέρεσθαι, καὶ τούτους εἶναι σκοποὺς ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς.