Hippocratic Corpus, Ambassadorial Speech (Hp.Ep.)
Hippocratic Corpus, Ambassadorial Speech of Thessalos, son of Hippocrates, translated by Wesley D. Smith, in Hippocrates: Pseudepigraphic Writings, (Leiden: E.J. Brill) 1990, a work still in copyright. Brief excerpts only. This text has 52 tagged references to 28 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg055; Wikidata ID: Q87770505; Trismegistos: authorwork/800 [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ 27.1 I think it is fitting, Athenians ...
§ 27.2 I shall make the beginning of my speech the beginning of the benefactions, ...
§ 27.3 But there was near to them a city of that place, ...
§ 27.4 This Fawn brought on board with him a Calydonian ...
§ 27.5 I shall lay down that story and pick up another, ...
§ 27.6 Cadmus and Hippolochus ...
§ 27.7 I now proceed to hold forth, for you who are well aware of it, ...
§ 27.8 These are the three; I have succeeded in pulling forth the arguments without using ropes; ...
§ 27.9 These, then, are the things that came to you from my city, ...
§ 27.10 I will not stretch this out by speaking at length again about the Crisean ...
§ 26.1 Speech at the Altar.
You many inhabitants of many towns, ...
§ 26.2 I am Hippocrates the physician. ...
§ 26.3 Now, I shall tell you why, in fact, I have submitted to doing such an extraordinary thing. ...
§ 26.4 Still, I beg you, will you, by the god of suppliance, ...