First draft. This English translation was generated by
Claude Sonnet 4.6, critiqued by Claude Haiku 4.5, and adjudicated/corrected
once by Claude Sonnet 4.6. It is published for reading and review, not as a
final scholarly edition. Hippocratic medical recipes and treatments are
historical text, not medical advice.
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Him, the great god ever-existing amid undefiled things, I swear by: I will harm no man — whether stranger or native — by disease, nor accomplish destructive deeds; nor shall any man persuade me by gifts to carry out a grievous transgression and give to a man ruinous drugs — those known to bring on thumos-destroying wickedness — [nor will I undertake to assign the favor of friendship to another]; but lifting holy hands to the bright aether and holding my every deliberation undefiled by baseness, I will contrive to accomplish those things that will render a man safe, providing to all that dear, life-giving health.