Aretaeus' debt to Hippocrates, evident in his adoption of the Ionic dialect and of a syntax closely imitative of that of the Hippocratic treatises, goes deeper still. In the wake of the work of K. Deichgräber, this paper analyses echoes of Hippocrates in the eight books On Acute and Chronic Diseases in an attempt to show the frequency of the quotations and their argumentative function.
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