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τὸ δὲ τῆς ἰατρικῆς ὅσῳ σεμνότερόν ἐστιν καὶ
τῷ βίῳ χρησιμώτερον, τοσούτῳ καὶ
ἐλευθεριώτερον εἶναι προσήκει τοῖς χρωμένοις, καί τινα προνομίαν ἔχειν τὴν τέχνην δίκαιον τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ τῆς χρήσεως, ἀναγκάζεσθαι δὲ μηδὲν μηδὲ προστάττεσθαι πρᾶγμα ἱερὸν καὶ θεῶν παίδευμα καὶ
ἀνθρώπων σοφῶν ἐπιτήδευμα, μηδ᾽ ὑπὸ δουλείαν γενέσθαι νόμου μηδ᾽ ὑπὸ ψῆφον ^ καὶ τιμωρίαν δικαστηρίου, μηδὲ ὑπὸ φόβον ^ καὶ πατρὸς ἀπειλὴν
καὶ ὀργὴν ἰδιωτικήν. ὥστε καὶ εἰ τοῦτό σοι σαφῶς οὑτωσὶ καὶ διαρρήδην ἔλεγον, ‘οὐ
βούλομαι οὐδὲ θεραπεύω δυνάμενος, ἀλλ᾽ ἐμαυτῷ
μόνῳ τὴν τέχνην οἶδα καὶ πατρί, τοῖς δὲ ἄλλοις
ἅπασιν .ἰδιώτης εἶναι βούλομαι,’ τίς τύραννος
οὕτω βίαιος ὡς ἀναγκάσαι ἂν καὶ ἄκοντα χρῆσθαι
τῇ τέχνῃ ; τὰ γὰρ τοιαῦτα ἱκετείαις καὶ δεήσεσιν,
οὐ νόμοις καὶ ὀργαῖς καὶ δικαστηρίοις ὑπάγειν, οἶμαι, προσήκει: πείθεσθαι τὸν ἰατρὸν χρή,
οὐ κελεύεσθαι: βούλεσθαι, οὐ φοβεῖσθαι: ἐπὶ τὴν θεραπείαν οὐκ ἄγεσθαι, ἑκόντα δὲ ἐρχόμενον
ἥδεσθαι.^ πατρικῆς δὲ ἀνάγκης ἄμοιρος ἡ τέχνη,4
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ὅπου γε τοῖς ἰατροῖς καὶ δημοσίᾳ αἱ πόλεις τιμὰς
καὶ προεδρίας καὶ ἀτελείας καὶ προνομίας διδόασιν.
Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 5.
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