SCRIPTURA

Classical Greek

On the Natural Faculties · Περὶ φυσικῶν δυνάμεων

Galen

Translated by Arthur John Brock

The great physician of Rome on how the body grows, nourishes itself and gets rid of waste, against the atomists who think nature works blindly.

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  • Greek: ed. A. J. Brock, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0057.tlg010, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Arthur John Brock, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0057.tlg010.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (books, chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 9

  1. 1Book I · sections 1–11
  2. 2Book I · sections 12–14
  3. 3Book I · sections 14–17
  4. 4Book II · sections 1–6
  5. 5Book II · sections 6–8
  6. 6Book II · sections 8–9
  7. 7Book III · sections 1–7
  8. 8Book III · sections 7–13
  9. 9Book III · sections 13–15