Langholf V
Sudhoffs Arch. 1989;73(1):64-77.
A number of medical treatises belonging to the so-called Hippocratic Collection feature text units of equal or similar length (or doubled). These passages are particularly obvious at the end of treatises (as appendices) or in continuous series, where one such passage follows upon the other. The length coincides approximately with the length of the 'writing tablet' (jotter) mentioned in 'Epidemics' VI 8.7 and with the ancient Greek standard unit of measure applied for the payment of scribes, namely 100 epic verses. Although the passages do not provide a clue to the 'Hippocratic question', they possibly betray the ancient physicians' procedure of organizing scribal work. Any such modern explanation of the quantitative phenomenon is, however, hypothetical, all the more so as the philological observation of the phenomenon is not unproblematical.
一些属于所谓《希波克拉底文集》的医学论著具有长度相等或相似（或加倍）的文本单元。这些段落在论著结尾（作为附录）或连续系列中尤为明显，其中一个这样的段落紧接着另一个。其长度大致与《流行病学》第六卷8.7中提到的“写字板”（便签簿）的长度以及古希腊用于支付抄写员的标准计量单位相符，即100首史诗诗句。尽管这些段落并未为“希波克拉底问题”提供线索，但它们可能揭示了古代医生组织抄写工作的程序。然而，对这种数量现象的任何此类现代解释都是假设性的，尤其是因为对该现象的语文学观察并非没有问题。
