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Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 848-850
ὅτῳ δὲ καὶ δεῖ φαρμάκων παιωνίων While what has need of medicines Paionian
ἤτοι κέαντες ἢ τεμόντες εὐφρόνως We, either burning or else cutting kindly
πειρασόμεσθα πῆμʼ ἀποστρέψαι νόσου. Will make endeavour to turn pain from sickness.

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1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 850, 849 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 849. ἤτοι κέαντες ἢ τεμόντες εὐφρόνως 849. We, either burning or else cutting kindly
2. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 3.55-3.57, 3.83-3.95 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
3. Herodotus, Histories, 3.131 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 3.131. Now this is how Democedes had come from Croton to live with Polycrates: he was oppressed by a harsh-tempered father at Croton ; since he could not stand him, he left him and went to Aegina . Within the first year after settling there, he excelled the rest of the physicians, although he had no equipment nor any medical implements. ,In his second year the Aeginetans paid him a talent to be their public physician; in the third year the Athenians hired him for a hundred minae, and Polycrates in the fourth year for two talents. Thus he came to Samos, and not least because of this man the physicians of Croton were well-respected [ ,for at this time the best physicians in Greek countries were those of Croton, and next to them those of Cyrene . About the same time the Argives had the name of being the best musicians].
4. Plato, Protagoras, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 311b. and I, to test Hippocrates’ grit, began examining him with a few questions. Tell me, Hippocrates, I said, in your present design of going to Protagoras and paying him money as a fee for his services to yourself, to whom do you consider you are resorting, and what is it that you are to become? Suppose, for example, you had taken it into your head to call on your namesake Hippocrates of Cos, the Asclepiad, and pay him money as your personal fee, and suppose someone asked you—Tell me, Hippocrates, in purposing to pay
5. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 408b. even if they did happen for the nonce to drink a posset; but they thought that the life of a man constitutionally sickly and intemperate was of no use to himself or others, and that the art of medicine should not be for such nor should they be given treatment even if they were richer than Midas. Very ingenious fellows, he said, you make out these sons of Asclepius to be.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
arcesilaus	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
asclepius	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
avarice	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
body,compared to the city	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
city,compared to the body	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
cyrene	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
damophilus	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
democedes of croton	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
ecca,giulia	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
edelstein,l.	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
egyptian medicine	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
heraclitus,on physicians	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
hippocratic oath	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
immortality,medical efforts towards	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
medical ethics,payment	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
medical ethics	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
metaphor,medical and political	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
money,payment of physicians	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530
nicias	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
pindar	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
plato,on relationship between medicine and politics	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
politics,and medicine	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
quintilian	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 188
seneca,thyestes	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 188
seneca,tragedies of	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 188
seneca,works agamemnon	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 188
sophocles oedipus tyrannus	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 188
therapeutics'	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
thucydides,medical metaphor in	Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 21
zeus,in asclepius myth	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 530