{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg037.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg037.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg037.local001","title":"Κίμωνος καὶ Λουκούλλος σύγκρισις","titleGreek":"Κίμωνος καὶ Λουκούλλος 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":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives02plut2/page/610/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Κίμωνος καὶ Λουκούλλος σύγκρισις. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg037.local001","excerpt":"μάλιστα δʼ ἄν τις εὐδαιμονίσειε τοῦ τέλους Λεύκουλλον, ὅτι πρὸ τῆς μεταβολῆς, ἣν ἤδη κατὰ τῆς πολιτείας ἐτεκταίνετο τοῖς ἐμφυλίοις πολέμοις τὸ πεπρωμένον, ἔφθη προαποθανὼν καὶ καταλύσας ἐν νοσούσῃ μέν, ἔτι δʼ ἐλευθέρᾳ τῇ πατρίδι τὸν βίον. καὶ τοῦτό γε πάντων αὐτῷ πρὸς Κίμωνα κοινότατόν ἐστι. καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖνος οὔπω συντεταραγμένων τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν, ἀλλʼ ἀκμὴν ἐχόντων ἐτελεύτησεν, ἐπὶ στρατοπέδου μέντοι καὶ στρατηγῶν, οὐκ ἀπειρηκὼς οὐδʼ ἀλύων, οὐδέ τῶν ὅπλων καὶ τῶν στρατηγιῶν καὶ τῶν τροπαίων ἔπαθλον ποιούμενος εὐωχίας καὶ πότους, ὥσπερ Πλάτων ἐπισκώπτει τοὺς περὶ τὸν Ὀρφέα, τοῖς εὖ βεβιωκόσι φάσκοντας ἀποκεῖσθαι γέρας ἐν ?δου μέθην αἰώνιον. σχολὴ μὲν οὖν καὶ ἡσυχία καὶ διατριβὴ περὶ λόγους ἡδονήν τινα καὶ θεωρίαν ἔχοντας εὐπρεπέστατον ἀνδρὶ πρεσβύτῃ καὶ πεπαυμένῳ πολέμων καὶ πολιτείας παραμύθιον τὸ δʼ ἐφʼ ἡδονὴν, ὡς τέλος, καταστρέψαντα τὰς καλὰς πράξεις ἤδη λοιπὸν Ἀφροδίσια τῶν πολέμων καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg037.local001/1-chapter-1/"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg037.local001/2-chapter-2/"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg037.local001/3-chapter-3/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg037.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg037.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg037/local001.json.gz"}}