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Can some translate this passage from Hippocrates ?

Posted: May 6th, 2020, 8:54 am
by Bill Ross
http://artflsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/ ... ippocrates

This translation is provided by Perseus but I can't match it up:

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi ... 35&getid=2

I'm researching extant uses of the word πολυτροπίας in particular:

1. Hippocrates. Regimen in Acute Diseases [ Hipp. Acut. section 1 ]
δή τι ἐπῆλθον περὶ τῶν προσοιστέων ἑκάστοισιν· ἀτὰρ οὐδὲ περὶ διαίτης οἱ ἀρχαῖοι ξυνέγραψαν οὐδὲν ἄξιον λόγου, καίτοι μέγα τοῦτο παρῆκαν. Τὰς μέντοι πολυτροπίας (https://logeion.uchicago.e ... %AF%CE%B1)τὰς ἐν ἑκάστῃ τῶν νούσων καὶ τὴν πολυσχιδίην αὐτέων οὐκ ἠγνόεον ἔνιοι· τοὺς δὲ ἀριθμοὺς ἑκάστου τῶν νουσημάτων σάφα φράζειν ἐθέλοντες, οὐκ ὀρθῶς

Re: Can some translate this passage from Hippocrates ?

Posted: May 7th, 2020, 12:54 am
by Barry Hofstetter
Bill Ross wrote: May 6th, 2020, 8:54 am http://artflsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/ ... ippocrates

This translation is provided by Perseus but I can't match it up:

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi ... 35&getid=2

I'm researching extant uses of the word πολυτροπίας in particular:

1. Hippocrates. Regimen in Acute Diseases [ Hipp. Acut. section 1 ]
δή τι ἐπῆλθον περὶ τῶν προσοιστέων ἑκάστοισιν· ἀτὰρ οὐδὲ περὶ διαίτης οἱ ἀρχαῖοι ξυνέγραψαν οὐδὲν ἄξιον λόγου, καίτοι μέγα τοῦτο παρῆκαν. Τὰς μέντοι πολυτροπίας (https://logeion.uchicago.e ... %AF%CE%B1)τὰς ἐν ἑκάστῃ τῶν νούσων καὶ τὴν πολυσχιδίην αὐτέων οὐκ ἠγνόεον ἔνιοι· τοὺς δὲ ἀριθμοὺς ἑκάστου τῶν νουσημάτων σάφα φράζειν ἐθέλοντες, οὐκ ὀρθῶς
The link for the translation goes to Homer, not Hippocrates, and that might explain why you couldn't "match it up."

Try this from the older Perseus:

https://tinyurl.com/y9zkmefu
πολυτροπία -ας, ἡ [πολύτροπος] versatility HDT. 2.121. ε3 (Ion. -ίη) ‖ variety, multiplicity, of formulations HP. Acut. 3 DION. Amm. 2. 3.2 MAUR. 12.24 etc.
Montanari, F. (2015). M. Goh & C. Schroeder (Eds.), The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek. Leiden; Boston: Brill.

"Some, indeed, were not unaware of the varieties of diseases in each and their mulitiplicities."

Notice the dialect is Ionic. I'm sure a better translation would result from consideration of context, but that should communicate the structure of the Greek at least.

Re: Can some translate this passage from Hippocrates ?

Posted: May 7th, 2020, 7:42 am
by Bill Ross
Thank you, Barry, for rescuing me from the weeds there.