{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg065.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg065.local001","title":"Γάλβας","titleGreek":"Γάλβας","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/204/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.tlg065.local001","excerpt":"ὁ μὲν Ἀθηναῖος Ἰφικράτης τὸν μισθοφόρον ἠξίου στρατιώτην καὶ φιλόπλουτον εἶναι καὶ φιλήδονον, ὅπως ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις χορηγίαν ἐπιζητῶν ἀγωνίζηται παραβολώτερον, οἱ δὲ πλεῖστοι, καθάπερ ἐρρωμένον σῶμα, τὸ στρατιωτικὸν ἀξιοῦσιν ἰδίᾳ μηδέποτε χρώμενον ὁρμῇ συγκινεῖσθαι τῇ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ. διὸ καὶ Παῦλον Αἰμίλιον λέγουσι τὴν ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ δύναμιν παραλαβόντα λαλιᾶς καὶ περιεργίας, οἷον διαστρατηγοῦσαν, ἀνάπλεων, παρεγγυῆσαι τὴν χεῖρα ποιεῖν ἑτοίμην καὶ τὴν μάχαιραν ὀξεῖαν ἕκαστον, αὐτῷ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων μελήσειν. ὁ δὲ Πλάτων οὐδὲν ἔργον ὁρῶν ἄρχοντος ἀγαθοῦ καὶ στρατηγοῦ στρατιᾶς μὴ σωφρονούσης μηδὲ ὁμοπαθούσης, ἀλλὰ τὴν πειθαρχικὴν ἀρετὴν ὁμοίως τῇ βασιλικῇ νομίζων φύσεως γενναίας καὶ τροφῆς φιλοσόφου δεῖσθαι, μάλιστα τῷ πρᾴῳ καὶ φιλανθρώπῳ τὸ θυμοειδὲς καὶ δραστήριον ἐμμελῶς ἀνακεραννυμένης, ἄλλα τε πάθη πολλὰ καὶ τὰ Ῥωμαίοις συμπεσόντα μετὰ τὴν Νέρωνος τελευτὴν ἔχει μαρτύρια καὶ παραδείγματα τοῦ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/#tlg0007-tlg065-local001-29"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg065.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg065/local001.json.gz"}}