§1## ΠΕΡΙ ΤΡΟΦΗΣ.
1.
ON NUTRIMENT. 1.
Τροφὴ καὶ τροφῆς εἶδος, μία καὶ πολλαί· μία μὲν ᾗ γένος ἓν, εἶδος δὲ ὑγρότητι καὶ ξηρότητι· καὶ ἐν τουτέοισιν ἰδέαι καὶ πόσον ἐστὶ καὶ ἐς τίνα καὶ ἐς τοσαῦτα.
Food and the form of food, one and many; one in so far as its genus is one, but there are forms in wetness and dryness; and in these there are shapes, and how much there is, and for what things, and into so many.
§22.
2.
Αὔξει δὲ καὶ ῥώννυσι καὶ σαρκοῖ καὶ ὁμοιοῖ καὶ ἀνομοιοῖ τὰ ἐν ἑκάστοισι κατὰ φύσιν τὴν ἑκάστου καὶ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆς δύναμιν.
It increases, strengthens, clothes with flesh, assimilates, and dissimilates the things in each person, according to the nature of each and the original power.
§33.
3.
Ὁμοιοῖ δὲ ἐς [φύσιν καὶ] δύναμιν, ὁκόταν κρατέῃ μὲν ἡ ἐπεισιοῦσα, ἐπικρατέῃ δὲ ἡ προϋπάρχουσα.
And it assimilates into [nature and] power, whenever the incoming food is overcome, and the pre-existing food prevails.
§44.
4.
Γίνεται δὲ καὶ ἐξίτηλος, ὁτὲ μὲν ἡ προτέρη ἐν χρόνῳ ἀπολυθεῖσα ἢ ἐπιπροστεθεῖσα, ὁτὲ δὲ ἡ ὑστέρη ἐν χρόνῳ ἀπολυθεῖσα ἢ ἐπιπροστεθεῖσα.
It also becomes extinct, sometimes when the former is in time separated or additionally applied, and sometimes when the latter is in time separated or additionally applied.
§55.
5.
Ἀμαυροῖ δὲ ἑκατέρας ἐν χρόνῳ καὶ μετὰ χρόνον ἡ ἔξωθεν συνεχὴς ἐπεισκριθεῖσα καὶ ἐπὶ πολλὸν χρόνον στερεμνίως πᾶσι τοῖσι μέλεσι διαπλεκεῖσα.
But the external, continuous food, introduced from without and for a long time firmly interwoven with all the members, dims both of them in time and after time.
§66.
6.
Καὶ τὴν μὲν ἰδίην ἰδέην ἐξεβλάστησε· μεταβάλλει τε τὴν ἀρχαίαν, καὶ καταφέρεται· τρέφει δὲ πεττομένη· τὴν δὲ προτέρην ἰδέην ἐξαλλάττει ἔστιν ὅτε καὶ τὰς προτέρας ἐξημαύρωσεν.
And it shoots forth its own proper form; it changes the ancient one, and goes downwards; it nourishes when concocted; sometimes it alters the former form, and dims the former ones.
§77.
7.
Δύναμις δὲ τροφῆς ἀφικνέεται καὶ ἐς ὀστέον καὶ πάντα τὰ μέρεα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐς νεῦρον καὶ ἐς φλέβα καὶ ἐς ἀρτηρίην καὶ ἐς μῦν καὶ ἐς ὑμένα καὶ σάρκα καὶ πιμελὴν καὶ αἷμα καὶ φλέγμα καὶ μυελὸν καὶ ἐγκέφαλον καὶ νωτιαῖον καὶ τὰ ἐντοσθίδια καὶ πάντα τὰ μέρεα αὐτῶν, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐς θερμασίην καὶ πνεῦμα καὶ ὑγρασίην.
The power of food reaches even to bone and all its parts, to tendon, to vein, to artery, to muscle, to membrane, to flesh, to fat, to blood, to phlegm, to marrow, to brain, to spinal cord, to the entrails and all their parts, and indeed to heat, breath, and moisture.
§88.
8.
Τροφὴ δὲ τὸ τρέφον, τροφὴ δὲ τὸ οἷον, τροφὴ δὲ τὸ μέλλον.
Food is that which nourishes, food is that which is of such a kind, food is that which is to be.
§99.
9.
Ἀρχὴ δὲ πάντων μία καὶ τελευτὴ πάντων μία καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ τελευτὴ καὶ ἀρχή.
The beginning of all is one, and the end of all is one, and the end and beginning are the same.
§1010.
10.
Καὶ ὅσα κατὰ μέρος ἐν τροφῇ καλῶς καὶ κακῶς διοικέεται, καλῶς μὲν ὅσα προείρηται, κακῶς δὲ ὅσα τούτοισι τὴν ἐναντίην ἔχει τάξιν.
And as many things as are well and badly administered in part in food: well, indeed, as many as have been said before; badly, as many as have the opposite order to these.
§1111.
11.
Χυλοὶ ποικίλοι καὶ χρώμασι καὶ δυνάμεσι καὶ ἐς βλάβην καὶ ἐς ὠφελείην, καὶ οὔτε βλάπτειν οὔτε ὠφελέειν, καὶ πλήθει καὶ ὑπερβολῇ καὶ ἐλλείψει καὶ διαπλοκῇ ὧν μὲν, ὧν δ’ οὔ.
Humors are various in colors and powers, both for harm and for benefit, and neither to harm nor to benefit, in quantity, excess, deficiency, and in the interweaving of some, but not of others.
§1212.
12.
Καὶ πάντων ἐς θερμασίην βλάπτει καὶ ὠφελέει· ἐς ψύξιν βλάπτει καὶ ὠφελέει· ἐς δύναμιν βλάπτει καὶ ὠφελέει.
And of all things, it harms and benefits with respect to heat; it harms and benefits with respect to cold; it harms and benefits with respect to power.
§1313.
13.
Δυνάμιος δὲ ποικίλαι φύσιες.
The natures of power are various.
§1414.
14.
Χυλοὶ φθείροντες καὶ ὅλον καὶ μέρος καὶ ἔξωθεν καὶ ἔνδοθεν, αὐτόματοι καὶ οὐκ αὐτόματοι, ἡμῖν μὲν αὐτόματοι, αἰτίῃ δ’ οὐκ αὐτόματοι· αἰτίης δὲ τὰ μὲν δῆλα, τὰ δ’ ἄδηλα, καὶ τὰ μὲν δυνατὰ, τὰ δ’ ἀδύνατα.
Humors corrupting both whole and part, both from without and from within, spontaneous and not spontaneous; spontaneous to us, but not spontaneous by cause; and of causes, some are manifest, others unmanifest, and some are possible, others impossible.
§1515.
15.
Φύσις ἐξαρκέει πάντα πᾶσιν.
Nature is sufficient in all things for all.
§1616.
16.
Ἐς δὲ ταύτην, ἔξωθεν μὲν, κατάπλασμα, κατάχρισμα, ἄλειμμα, γυμνότης ὅλου καὶ μέρεος, καὶ σκέπη ὅλου καὶ μέρεος, θερμασίη καὶ ψύξις κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον καὶ στύψις καὶ ἕλκωσις καὶ δηγμὸς καὶ λίπασμα· ἔνδοθεν δὲ, τινά τε τῶν εἰρημένων, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοισιν αἰτίη ἄδηλος καὶ μέρει καὶ ὅλῳ, τινί τε καὶ οὐτινί.
And with respect to this, from without, plaster, ointment, salve, nakedness of whole and part, and covering of whole and part, heat and cold according to the same principle, and astringency, ulceration, biting, and fatting; from within, some of the aforementioned things, and in addition to these, an unmanifest cause for part and whole, for someone and for no one.
§1717.
17.
Ἀποκρίσιες κατὰ φύσιν, κοιλίης, οὔρων, ἱδρῶτος, πτυάλου, μύξης, ὑστέρης, καθ’ αἱμοῤῥοΐδα, θύμον, λέπρην, φῦμα, καρκίνωμα, ἐκ ῥινῶν, ἐκ πλεύμονος, ἐκ κοιλίης, ἐξ ἕδρης, ἐκ καυλοῦ, κατὰ φύσιν καὶ παρὰ φύσιν· αἱ διακρίσιες τούτων ἄλλοισι πρὸς ἄλλον λόγον ἄλλοτε καὶ ἀλλοίως.
Secretions according to nature: of bowels, of urine, of sweat, of spittle, of mucus, of womb, by hemorrhoids, warts, leprosy, tubercle, cancer, from the nose, from the lungs, from the bowels, from the anus, from the penis, according to nature and contrary to nature; the separations of these are for different people in different proportions, at different times, and in different ways.
Μία φύσις ἐστὶ ταῦτα πάντα καὶ οὐ μία· πολλαὶ φύσιές εἰσι ταῦτα πάντα καὶ μία.
All these things are one nature and not one; all these things are many natures and one.
§1818.
18.
Φαρμακείη ἄνω καὶ κάτω, καὶ οὔτε ἄνω οὔτε κάτω.
Purgation upwards and downwards, and neither upwards nor downwards.