{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg072.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg072.local001","title":"Πῶς ἄν τις ἀπ’ ἐχθρῶν ὠφελοῖτο","titleGreek":"Πῶς ἄν τις ἀπ’ ἐχθρῶν ὠφελοῖτο","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/stream/moralia01plut#page/208/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Πῶς ἄν τις ἀπ’ ἐχθρῶν ὠφελοῖτο. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1888. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg072.local001","excerpt":"ὁρῶ μὲν ὅτι τὸν πραότατον, ὦ Κορνήλιε Ποῦλχερ, Ποῦλχερ Xylander: ποῦλχερ ἄτερ πολιτείας ᾕρησαι τρόπον, ἐν ᾧ μάλιστα τοῖς κοινοῖς ὠφέλιμος; ὢν ἀλυπότατον ἰδίᾳ τοῖς ἐντυγχάνουσι παρέχεις σεαυτόν. ἐπεὶ δὲ χώραν μὲν ἄθηρον ὥσπερ ἱστοροῦσι τὴν Κρήτην εὑρεῖν ἔστι, πολιτεία δὲ μήτε φθόνον ἐνηνοχυῖα μήτε ζῆλον φιλονεικίαν, ἔχθρας γονιμώτατα πάθη, μέχρι νῦν οὐ γέγονεν ἀλλʼ εἰ μηδὲν ἄλλο, ταῖς ἔχθραις αἱ φιλίαι συμπλέκουσιν ἡμᾶς· ὃ καὶ Χίλων ὁ σοφὸς νοήσας τὸν εἰπόντα μηδένα ἔχειν ἐχθρὸν ἠρώτησεν εἰ μηδὲ φίλον ἔχοι, δοκεῖ μοι τὰ τʼ ἄλλα περὶ ἐχθρῶν τῷ πολιτικῷ διεσκέφθαι προσήκειν καὶ τοῦ Ξενοφῶντος Ξενοφῶντος] Oecon. I 15 ἀκηκοέναι μὴ παρέργως εἰπόντος ὅτι τοῦ νοῦν ἔχοντός ἐστι καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν ὠφελεῖσθαι ἅπερ οὖν εἰς τοῦτο πρῴην εἰπεῖν μοι παρέστη, συναγαγὼν ὁμοῦ τι τοῖς αὐτοῖς ὀνόμασιν ἀπέσταλκά σοι, φεισάμενος ὡς ἐνῆν μάλιστα τῶν ἐν τοῖς Πολιτικοῖς Παραγγέλμασι γεγραμμένων, ἐπεὶ κἀκεῖνο τὸ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/#tlg0007-tlg072-local001-11"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg072.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg072/local001.json.gz"}}