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title: Menecrates the Physician
title_greek: Μενεκράτης ὁ Ἰατρός
author: Menecrates of Syracuse
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canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/menecrates-syracuse-physician-fws-aa"
period: Classical
dialect: Doric
domain: Medicine
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Menecrates the Physician

*Μενεκράτης ὁ Ἰατρός*

**Author:** Menecrates of Syracuse

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## Text

### 1

Μενεκράτης Ζεὺς Φιλίππῳ χαίρειν.

### 2

Σὺ μὲν Μακεδονίας βασιλεύεις, ἐγὼ δὲ ἰατρικῆς καὶ σὺ μὲν ὑγιαίνοντας δύνασαι, ὅταν βουληθῇς, ἀπολλύναι, ἐγὼ δὲ τοὺς νοσοῦντας σώζειν καὶ τοὺς εὐρώστους ἀνόσους, οἳ ἂν ἐμοὶ πείθωνται, παρέχειν μέχρι γήρως ζῶντας. τοιγαροῦν σὲ μὲν Μακεδόνες δορυφοροῦσιν, ἐμὲ δὲ καὶ οἱ θεοὶ μέλλοντες ἔσεσθαι· Ζεὺς γὰρ ἐγὼ αὐτοῖς βίον παρέχω.

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