The Complete Works of Claudius Galen, Vol. 18 Pt. 2

Ed. Chart. VIII. [588. 589.]

Ed. Bas. V. (120.)

...[he] traverses the causes. For while there are many classes among these, grief is one of them. People grieve—some for the death of children, family members, relatives, or friends; others because they expect either that they themselves will suffer alone or that their entire fatherland will be overturned. The covetous also grieve when deprived of wealth, the ambitious when deprived of honor, and others similarly, each according to their own nature. From these classes, then, are those who grieve on account of love, having suffered nothing divine, but a human passion—unless, perhaps, someone believes the myths to the extent of thinking that certain people are led into this passion by some small, newborn demon carrying burning torches. But he who stated that the class of critical days is divine confessed a passion of his own, yet he did not show the opinion of Hippocrates; for we do not call everything whose causes are unknown or irrational "divine," but rather, if anything, only that which is marvelous. [589] Nor was Hippocrates ignorant of the causes of the critical days, as [we have shown] in the books on...