{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg017.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg017.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg017.local001","title":"Ἀλκιβιάδου καὶ Κοριολὰνου σύγκρισις","titleGreek":"Ἀλκιβιάδου καὶ Κοριολὰνου 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":"1916","volume":"4","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/plutarchslives04plut/page/218/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Ἀλκιβιάδου καὶ Κοριολὰνου σύγκρισις. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1916. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg017.local001","excerpt":"ἐκκειμένων δὲ τῶν πράξεων, ὅσας ἡγούμεθα λόγου καὶ μνήμης ἀξίας εἶναι, τὰς μὲν πολεμικὰς ἐπʼ οὐδέτερον ποιούσας ῥοπὴν μεγάλην ὁρᾶν ἐστιν, ὁμαλῶς γὰρ ἀμφότεροι πολλὰ μὲν στρατιωτικῆς ἔργα τόλμης καὶ ἀνδρείας, πολλὰ δὲ καὶ τέχνης καὶ προνοίας στρατηγοῦντες ἐπεδείξαντο, πλὴν εἰ μή τις θέλοι τὸν Ἀλκιβιάδην, ὅτι καὶ κατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλατταν ἐν πολλοῖς ἀγῶσι νικῶν καὶ κατορθῶν διετέλεσεν, ἀποφαίνειν τελειότερον στρατηγόν ἐπεὶ τό γε παρόντας καὶ ἄρχοντας ὀρθοῦν ἀεὶ προδήλως τὰ οἰκεῖα καὶ προδηλότερον αὖ πάλιν βλάπτειν μεθισταμένους ἀμφοτέροις ὑπῆρξε. πολιτείαν δὲ τὴν μὲν Ἀλκιβιάδου τὴν ἄγαν λαμυρὰν καὶ τὸ μὴ καθαρεῦον ἀναγωγίας καὶ βωμολοχίας ἐν τῷ πρὸς χάριν ὁμιλεῖν τοῖς πολλοῖς οἱ σώφρονες ἐβδελύττοντο, τὴν δὲ Μαρκίου παντάπασιν ἄχαριν καὶ ὑπερήφανον καὶ ὀλιγαρχικὴν γενομένην ἐμίσησεν ὁ Ῥωμαίων δῆμος. οὐδετέραν μὲν οὖν ἐπαινετέον ὁ δὲ δημαγωγῶν καὶ χαριζόμενος τῶν ὅπως οὐ δόξουσι…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg017.local001/1-chapter-1/"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg017.local001/2-chapter-2/"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg017.local001/3-chapter-3/"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg017.local001/4-chapter-4/"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg017.local001/5-chapter-5/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg017.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg017.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg017/local001.json.gz"}}