{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg009.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg009.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg009.local001","title":"Σόλωνος καὶ Ποπλικόλα σύγκρισις","titleGreek":"Σόλωνος καὶ Ποπλικόλα σύγκρισις","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Bernadotte Perrin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Plutarch's Lives","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1914","volume":"1","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives01plut2/page/564/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Σόλωνος καὶ Ποπλικόλα σύγκρισις. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg009.local001","excerpt":"ἆρʼ οὖν ἴδιόν τι περὶ ταύτην τὴν σύγκρισιν ὑπάρχει καὶ μὴ πάνυ συμβεβηκὸς ἑτέρᾳ τῶν ἀναγεγραμμένων, τὸν ἕτερον γεγονέναι μιμητὴν τοῦ ἑτέρου, τὸν ἕτερον δὲ μάρτυν; ὅρα γάρ ἣν ὁ Σόλων ἐξήνεγκε περὶ εὐδαιμονίας ἀπόφασιν πρὸς Κροῖσον, ὡς Ποπλικόλᾳ μᾶλλον ἢ Τέλλῳ προσήκει· Τέλλου μὲν γὰρ, ὃν εἶπε γεγονέναι μακαριώτατον διʼ εὐποτμίαν καὶ ἀρετὴν καὶ εὐτεκνίαν, οὔτʼ αὐτὸς ἐν τοῖς ποιήμασιν ὡς ἀνδρὸς ἀγαθοῦ λόγον ἔσχεν οὔτε παῖδες οὔτʼ ἀρχή τις εἰς δόξαν ἦλθεν Ποπλικόλας δὲ καὶ ζῶν ἐπρώτευσε δυνάμει καὶ δόξῃ διʼ ἀρετὴν Ῥωμαίων, καὶ τεθνηκότος ἐν τοῖς ἐπιφανεστάτοις γένεσι καὶ στέμμασιν ἔτι καθʼ ἡμᾶς Ποπλικόλαι καὶ Μεσσάλαι καὶ Οὐαλλέριοι διʼ ἐτῶν ἑξακοσίων τῆς εὐγενείας τὴν δόξαν ἀναφέρουσι. καὶ Τέλλος μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων ὡς ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς ἐν τάξει μένων καὶ μαχόμενος κατέστρεψε· Ποπλικόλας δὲ τοὺς μὲν πολεμίους κτείνας, ὃ τοῦ πεσεῖν εὐτυχέστερόν ἐστι, τὴν δὲ πατρίδα νικῶσαν ἐπιδὼν διʼ αὐτόν…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg009.local001/1-chapter-1/"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg009.local001/2-chapter-2/"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg009.local001/3-chapter-3/"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg009.local001/4-chapter-4/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg009.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg009.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg009/local001.json.gz"}}