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“I swear by Apollo the physician…” — so begins the Jusjurandum, the Hippocratic Oath, the most famous document of ancient medicine. Composed in Ancient Greek in the classical period and transmitted in the Hippocratic Corpus under the name of Hippocrates, this brief text binds the physician to honor teachers, to act for the benefit of the sick, to abstain from harm and injustice, and to keep patients’ secrets.
No medical text has had greater influence: the Oath shaped the ethics of the profession from antiquity to the present, and modern medical graduates still swear versions descended from it. It remains the classic statement of the physician’s moral covenant and a cornerstone of medical ethics.
About this edition. The Greek text is that of the Perseus Digital Library. Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).