{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg057.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg057.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg057.local001","title":"Δημήτριος","titleGreek":"Δημήτριος","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":"1920","volume":"9","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":["Tufts University"],"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/plutarchslives09plut/page/2/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. 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Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1920. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg057.local001","excerpt":"οἱ πρῶτοι τὰς τέχνας ἐοικέναι ταῖς αἰσθήσεσιν ὑπολαβόντες οὐχ ἥκιστά μοι δοκοῦσι τὴν περὶ τὰς κρίσεις αὐτῶν κατανοῆσαι δύναμιν, ᾗ τῶν ἐναντίων ὁμοίως ἐν ἑκατέρῳ ἐν ἑκατέρῳ Coraës and Bekker, after Reiske: ἑκατέρῳ. γένει πεφύκαμεν ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι. τοῦτο γὰρ αὐταῖς κοινόν ἐστι· τῇ δὲ πρὸς τὰ τέλη τῶν κρινομένων ἀναφορᾷ διαλλάττουσιν. ἡ μὲν γὰρ αἴσθησις οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον ἐπὶ λευκῶν ἢ μελάνων διαγνώσει γέγονεν, οὐδὲ γλυκέων ἢ πικρῶν, οὐδὲ μαλακῶν καὶ εἰκόντων ἢ σκληρῶν καὶ ἀντιτύπων, ἀλλʼ ἔργον αὐτῆς ἑκάστοις ἐντυγχάνουσαν ὑπὸ πάντων τε κινεῖσθαι καὶ κινουμένην πρὸς τὸ φρονοῦν ἀναφέρειν ὡς πέπονθεν. αἱ δὲ τέχναι μετὰ λόγου συνεστῶσαι πρὸς αἵρεσιν καὶ λῆψιν οἰκείου τινός, φυγὴν δὲ καὶ διάκρουσιν ἀλλοτρίου, τὰ μὲν ἀφʼ αὑτῶν προηγουμένως, τὰ δὲ ὑπὲρ τοῦ φυλάξασθαι κατὰ συμβεβηκὸς ἐπιθεωροῦσι· καὶ γὰρ ἰατρικῇ τὸ νοσερὸν καὶ ἁρμονικῇ τὸ ἐκμελές, ὅπως ἔχει, σκοπεῖν συμβέβηκε πρὸς 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41","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg057.local001/#tlg0007-tlg057-local001-41"},{"label":"Chapter 42","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg057.local001/#tlg0007-tlg057-local001-42"},{"label":"Chapter 43","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg057.local001/#tlg0007-tlg057-local001-43"},{"label":"Chapter 44","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg057.local001/#tlg0007-tlg057-local001-44"},{"label":"Chapter 45","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg057.local001/#tlg0007-tlg057-local001-45"},{"label":"Chapter 46","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg057.local001/#tlg0007-tlg057-local001-46"},{"label":"Chapter 47","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg057.local001/#tlg0007-tlg057-local001-47"},{"label":"Chapter 48","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg057.local001/#tlg0007-tlg057-local001-48"},{"label":"Chapter 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