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The typology of human constitutions in Hippocrates’ De victu 1, 32

    Cătălin Enache

Wiener Studien 124/2011, pp. 41-54, 2011/11/07

Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition

doi: 10.1553/wst124s41

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doi:10.1553/wst124



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Abstract

The paper offers an interpretation of a rather intriguing chapter of the Hippocratic treatise De victu. The author argues that the human constitutions described in De victu 1, 32 are to be regarded in the metaphysical and anthropological context of Book I of the treatise, according to which everything can be reduced to two elements (fire and water) and four properties (warm, dry, cold, wet).