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Λυκοῦργος. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg004.local001","excerpt":"περὶ Λυκούργου τοῦ νομοθέτου καθόλου μὲν οὐδὲν ἔστιν εἰπεῖν ἀναμφισβήτητον, οὗ γε καὶ γένος καὶ ἀποδημία καὶ τελευτὴ καὶ πρὸς ἅπασιν ἡ περὶ τοὺς νόμους αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν πολιτείαν πραγματεία διαφόρους ἔσχηκεν ἱστορίας, ἥκιστα δὲ οἱ χρόνοι καθʼ οὓς γέγονεν ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁμολογοῦνται, οἱ μὲν γάρ Ἰφίτῳ συνακμάσαι καὶ συνδιαθεῖναι τὴν Ὀλυμπιακὴν ἐκεχειρίαν λέγουσιν αὐτόν, ὧν ἐστι καὶ Ἀριστοτέλης ὁ φιλόσοφος, τεκμήριον προσφέρων τὸν Ὀλυμπίασι δίσκον ἐν ᾧ τοὔνομα τοῦ Λυκούργου διασώζεται καταγεγραμμένον· οἱ δὲ ταῖς διαδοχαῖς τῶν ἐν Σπάρτῃ βεβασιλευκότων ἀναλεγόμενοι τὸν χρόνον, ὥσπερ Ἐρατοσθένης καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρος, οὐκ ὀλίγοις ἔτεσι πρεσβύτερον ἀποφαίνουσι τῆς πρώτης Ὀλυμπιάδος. Τίμαιος δὲ ὑπονοεῖ, δυεῖν ἐν Σπάρτῃ γεγονότων Λυκούργων οὐ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον, τῷ ἑτέρῳ τὰς ἀμφοῖν πράξεις διὰ τὴν δόξαν ἀνακεῖσθαι καὶ τόν γε πρεσβύτερον οὐ πόρρω τῶν Ὁμήρου γεγονέναι χρόνων, ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ κατʼ ὄψιν ἐντυχεῖν…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-29"},{"label":"Chapter 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-30"},{"label":"Chapter 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/#tlg0007-tlg004-local001-31"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg004.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg004/local001.json.gz"}}