{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg071.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg071.local001","title":"Πῶς ἄν τις αἴσθοιτο ἑαυτοῦ προκόπτοντος ἐπʼ ἀρετή","titleGreek":"Πῶς ἄν τις αἴσθοιτο ἑαυτοῦ προκόπτοντος ἐπʼ ἀρετή","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Moralia","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1888","volume":"1","series":null,"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","Angelia Hanhardt"]},{"role":"CTS conversion","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43837/page/n441","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Πῶς ἄν τις αἴσθοιτο ἑαυτοῦ προκόπτοντος ἐπʼ ἀρετή. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1888. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg071.local001","excerpt":"τίς τῶν λόγων, ὦ Σόσσιε Σενεκίων, σώσει τὴν ἑαυτοῦ βελτιουμένου πρὸς ἀρετὴν συναίσθησιν, εἰ μηδεμίαν αἱ προκοπαὶ ποιοῦσι τῆς ἀφροσύνης ἄνεσιν, ἀλλʼ ἴσῳ σταθμῷ πᾶσιν ἡ κακία περιτιθεμένη περιτιθεμένη Emperius: περιθεμένη μολυβδὶς ὥστε δίκτυον κατέσπασεν; Nauck. p. 247 οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐν μουσικοῖς τις ἢ γραμματικοῖς ἐπιδιδοὺς ἂν γνοίη μηδὲν ἐν τῷ μανθάνειν ἀπαρύτων τῆς περὶ ταῦτα ἀμαθίας ἀλλʼ ἴσης ἀεὶ τῆς ἀτεχνίας αὐτῷ παρούσης , οὐδὲ κάμνοντι θεραπεία μὴ ποιοῦσα ῥᾳστώνην μηδὲ κουφισμὸν ἁμωσγέπως τοῦ νοσήματος ὑπείκοντος καὶ χαλῶντος αἴσθησιν ἂν παρέχοι διαφορᾶς, πρὶν εἰλικρινῆ τὴν ἐναντίαν ἕξιν ἐγγενέσθαι παντάπασιν ἀναρρωσθέντος τοῦ σώματος. ἀλλʼ ὥσπερ ἐν τούτοις οὐ προκόπτουσιν, ἂν προκόπτοντες ἀνέσει τοῦ βαρύνοντος οἷον ἐπὶ ζυγοῦ πρὸς τοὐναντίον ἀναφερόμενοι μὴ γιγνώσκωσι τὴν μεταβολήν, οὕτως ἐν τῷ φιλοσοφεῖν οὔτε προκοπὴν οὔτε τινὰ προκοπῆς αἴσθησιν ὑποληπτέον, εἰ μηδὲν ἡ ψυχὴ μεθίησι μηδʼ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-13"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-14"},{"label":"§ 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-15"},{"label":"§ 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-16"},{"label":"§ 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/#tlg0007-tlg071-local001-17"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg071.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg071/local001.json.gz"}}