Structure and style in the Hippocratic treatise Prorrheticon 2

Bearing in mind both the capacity of man and his limits, the author of Prorrheticon 2 states his opposition to irrational prognoses and brings forward the sêmeia as the only basis for a correct prognostic. He does so by enhancing his statements by means of structure (ring-composition, psychological structure of recurrence) and style: in this field he uses several devices aimed to attract the reader's attention, putting together colloquial and high-level expressions. In this paper a similar stylistic technique is intended in order to illustrate the points of the Greek author.