{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg073.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg073.local001","title":"Περί πολυφιλίας","titleGreek":"Περί πολυφιλίας","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/224/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περί πολυφιλίας. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1888. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg073.local001","excerpt":"Μένωνα τὸν Θετταλὸν οἰόμενον ἐν λόγοις ἱκανῶς γεγυμνάσθαι καὶ τοῦτο δὴ τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἐμπεδοκλέους Ἐμπεδοκλέους] Mullach. 1 p. 2 λεγόμενον σοφίης σοφίης Sextus Empiricus: σοφίας ἐπʼ ἄκροισι θαμίζειν ἠρώτησεν ὁ Σωκράτης Σωκράτης] Plat. Men. p. 71 e τί ἀρετή ἐστιν· ἀποκριναμένου δʼ ἰταμῶς ἐκείνου καὶ προχείρως ὅτι καὶ παιδός ἐστιν ἀρετὴ καὶ πρεσβύτου καὶ ἀνδρὸς καὶ γυναικὸς καὶ ἄρχοντος καὶ ἰδιώτου καὶ δεσπότου καὶ θεράποντος, εὖ γʼ εἶπεν ὁ Σωκράτης, ὅτι μίαν ἀρετὴν αἰτηθεὶς σμῆνος ἀρετῶν κεκίνηκας, οὐ κακῶς τεκμαιρόμενος ὅτι μηδεμίαν εἰδὼς ἀρετὴν ἄνθρωπος ἄνθρωπος H πολλὰς ὠνόμαζεν. ἆρʼ οὖν οὐχὶ καὶ ἡμῖν ἄν τις ἐπιχλευάσειεν ὅτι μηδέπω μίαν φιλίαν κεκτημένοι βεβαίως φοβούμεθα μὴ λάθωμεν εἰς πολυφιλίαν ἐμπεσόντες; σχεδὸν γὰρ οὐδὲν διαφέρομεν ἀνθρώπου κολοβοῦ καὶ τυφλοῦ, φοβουμένου μὴ Βριάρεως ὁ ἑκατόγχειρ καὶ Ἄργος ὁ πανόπτης γένηται. καίτοι τόν γε παρὰ τῷ Μενάνδρῳ Μενάνδρῳ] Meinek. IV p.…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/#tlg0007-tlg073-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/#tlg0007-tlg073-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/#tlg0007-tlg073-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/#tlg0007-tlg073-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/#tlg0007-tlg073-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/#tlg0007-tlg073-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/#tlg0007-tlg073-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/#tlg0007-tlg073-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/#tlg0007-tlg073-local001-9"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg073.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg073/local001.json.gz"}}