{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg063.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg063.local001","title":"Ἄρατος","titleGreek":"Ἄρατος","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":"1926","volume":"11","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/plutarchslives11plut/page/n13/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. 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Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1926. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg063.local001","excerpt":"παροιμίαν τινὰ παλαιὰν, ὦ Πολύκρατες, δείσας μοι δοκεῖ τὸ δύσφημον αὐτῆς, ὁ φιλόσοφος Χρύσιππος, οὐχ ὃν ἔχει τρόπον, ἀλλʼ ὡς αὐτὸς ᾤετο βέλτιον εἶναι, διατίθεται, τίς πατέρʼ αἰνήσει, εὶ μὴ εὐδαίμονες υἱοί; Διονυσόδωρος δὲ ὁ Τροιζήνιος ἐλέγχων αὐτὸν ἀντεκτίθησι τὴν ἀληθινὴν οὕτως ἔχουσαν τίς πατέρʼ αἰνήσει, εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί ; καί φησι τοὺς ἀφʼ αὑτῶν οὐδενὸς ἀξίους ὄντας, ὑποδυομένους δὲ προγόνων τινῶν ἀρεταῖς ἀρεταῖς Sint. and Ziegler with Sg; Bekker has ἀρετάς, with inferior MSS. καί πλεονάζοντας ἐν τοῖς ἐκείνων ἐπαίνοις ὑπὸ τῆς παροιμίας ἐπιστομίζεσθαι· ἀλλʼ ᾧ γε φύσει τὸ γενναῖον ἐπιπρέπει ἐκ πατέρων, κατὰ Πίνδαρον,Pyth. viii. 44f.(φυᾷ ἐκ πατέρων παισὶ λῆμα). ὥσπερ σοί πρὸς τὸ κάλλιστον ἀφομοιοῦντι τῶν οἴκοθεν παραδειγμάτων τὸν βίον, εὔδαιμον ἂν εἴη τὸ μεμνῆσθαι τῶν ἀπὸ γένους ἀρίστων, ἀκούοντας περὶ αὑτῶν ἀεί τι καί λέγοντας. οὐ γὰρ ἰδίων πλυταρξηʼς λιες ἀπορίᾳ καλῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 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25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-29"},{"label":"Chapter 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-30"},{"label":"Chapter 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-31"},{"label":"Chapter 32","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-32"},{"label":"Chapter 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41","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-41"},{"label":"Chapter 42","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-42"},{"label":"Chapter 43","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-43"},{"label":"Chapter 44","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-44"},{"label":"Chapter 45","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-45"},{"label":"Chapter 46","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-46"},{"label":"Chapter 47","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-47"},{"label":"Chapter 48","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg063.local001/#tlg0007-tlg063-local001-48"},{"label":"Chapter 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