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The Sophic Hydrolith, Water Stone of the Wise
Anonymous and companion authors · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Hippocrates is a catalogue name in the main prologue’s asserted succession of possessors. No work, medical doctrine or individual accomplishment is specified in this unit. Its evidentiary function is therefore limited: the narrator invokes the name to strengthen the art’s authority. The English preserves it unchanged. The name’s presence does not independently show that the person known by it practised the process described in this book.
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- Opening explanation · unit 6Hippocrates occurs in the sequence of figures asserted to have possessed the art.
Attested forms
Hippocrates