{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg026.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg026.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg026.local001","title":"Ἀριστείδου καὶ Κάτωνος σύγκρισις","titleGreek":"Ἀριστείδου καὶ Κάτωνος 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":"2","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/plutarchslives02plut2/page/384/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Ἀριστείδου καὶ Κάτωνος σύγκρισις. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg026.local001","excerpt":"γεγραμμένων δὲ καὶ περὶ τούτων τῶν ἀξίων μνήμης, ὅλος ὁ τούτου βίος ὅλῳ τῷ θατέρου παρατεθεὶς οὐκ εὐθεώρητον ἔχει τὴν διαφοράν ἐναφανιζομένην πολλαῖς καὶ μεγάλαις ὁμοιότησιν. εἰ δὲ δεῖ κατὰ μέρος τῇ συγκρίσει διαλαβεῖν ὥσπερ ἔπος ἢ γραφὴν ἑκάτερον, τὸ μὲν ἐξ οὐχ ὑπαρχούσης ἀφορμῆς εἰς πολιτείαν καὶ δόξαν ἀρετῇ καὶ δυνάμει προελθεῖν ἀμφοτέροις κοινόν ἐστι. φαίνεται δʼ ὁ μὲν Ἀριστείδης οὔπω τότε μεγάλων οὐσῶν τῶν Ἀθηνῶν καὶ ταῖς οὐσίαις ἔτι συμμέτροις καὶ ὁμαλοῖς ἐπιβαλὼν δημαγωγοῖς καὶ στρατηγοῖς ἐπιφανὴς γενέσθαι· τὸ γὰρ μέγιστον ἦν τίμημα τότε πεντακοσίων μεδίμνων, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον τριακοσίων, ἔσχατον δὲ καὶ τρίτον διακοσίων· ὁ δὲ Κάτων ἐκ πολίχνης τε μικρᾶς καὶ διαίτης ἀγροίκου δοκούσης φέρων ἀφῆκεν ἑαυτὸν ὥσπερ εἰς πέλαγος ἀχανὲς τὴν ἐν Ῥώμῃ πολιτείαν, οὐκέτι Κουρίων καὶ Φαβρικίων καὶ Ἀτιλίων ἔργον οὖσαν ἡγεμόνων, οὐδʼ ἀπʼ ἀρότρου καὶ σκαφείου πένητας καὶ αὐτουργοὺς ἀναβαίνοντας ἐπὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg026.local001/1-chapter-1/"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg026.local001/2-chapter-2/"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg026.local001/3-chapter-3/"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg026.local001/4-chapter-4/"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg026.local001/5-chapter-5/"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg026.local001/6-chapter-6/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg026.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg026.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg026/local001.json.gz"}}