Editing the lemmata of Galen’s Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms, Book 5
Galen’s Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms was at first addressed to a restricted circle of friends or pupils, and some years later probably reworked by Galen himself for publication. The aim of my contribution is to underscore the problems that a modern editor of Galen’s Commentary has to deal with when editing the Hippocratic lemmata. The first point to investigate is Galen’s philological work: often unsatisfied with the readings transmitted in the Hippocratic manuscripts, he introduced corrections into Hippocrates’ text in his commentary.