'According to both Hippocrates and the truth': Hippocrates as witness to the Truth, from Apollonius of Citium to Galen

Apollonios of Citium provides the first testimony of the topos of Hippocrates admitting his own errors. Two centuries later, Galen, through the notion of his 'love of truth' seeks to promote a new myth of Hippocrates, completely unaffected by the ill will and bad faith that marked the sects in Galen's time.