{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg043.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg043.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg043.local001","title":"Σύγκρισις Σερτωρίου καὶ Εὐμένους","titleGreek":"Σύγκρισις Σερτωρίου καὶ Εὐμένους","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":"1919","volume":"8","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/plutarchslives08plut/page/136/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Σύγκρισις Σερτωρίου καὶ Εὐμένους. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1919. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg043.local001","excerpt":"ταῦτα ἔστιν ἃ περὶ Εὐμενοῦς καὶ Σερτωρίου μνήμης ἄξια παρειλήφαμεν. ἐν δὲ τῇ συγκρίσει κοινὸν μὲν ἀμφοτέροις ὑπάρχει τὸ ξένους καὶ ἀλλοδαποὺς καὶ φυγάδας ὄντας ἐθνῶν τε παντοδαπῶν καὶ στρατευμάτων μαχίμων τε καὶ μεγάλων μεγάλων with Bekker: μεγάλων δυνάμεων. ἡγουμένους διατελεῖν, ἴδιον δὲ Σερτωρίῳ μὲν τὸ παρὰ πάντων τῶν συμμάχων δεδομένην ἔχειν διὰ τὸ ἀξίωμα τὴν ἀρχήν, Εὐμενεῖ δὲ τὸ πολλῶν διαφερομένων περὶ τῆς ἡγεμονίας πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐκ τῶν πράξεων λαμβάνειν τὸ πρωτεῖον καὶ τῷ μὲν ἄρχεσθαι βουλόμενοι δικαίως εἵποντο, τῷ δὲ ἄρχειν μὴ δυνάμενοι πρὸς τὸ συμφέρον ὑπήκουον. καὶ γὰρ ὁ μὲν Ἰβήρων καὶ Λυσιτανῶν Ῥωμαῖος, ὁ δὲ Χερρονησίτης Μακεδόνων ἦρχεν, ὧν οἱ μὲν ἔκπαλαι Ῥωμαίοις ἐδούλευον, οἱ δὲ τότε πάντας ἀνθρώπους ἐδουλοῦντο. καὶ Σερτώριος μὲν ἀπὸ βουλῆς καὶ στρατηγίας θαυμαζόμενος, Εὐμενὴς δὲ διὰ τὴν γραμματείαν καταφρονούμενος ἐφʼ ἡγεμονίαν προῆλθεν. οὐ μόνον τοίνυν ἐλάττοσι πρὸς τὴν…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg043.local001/1-chapter-1/"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg043.local001/2-chapter-2/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg043.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg043.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg043/local001.json.gz"}}