{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg080.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg080.local001","title":"Περὶ δεισιδαιμονίας","titleGreek":"Περὶ δεισιδαιμονίας","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/402/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ δεισιδαιμονίας. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1888. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg080.local001","excerpt":"τῆς περὶ θεῶν ἀμαθίας καὶ ἀγνοίας εὐθὺς ἐξ ἀρχῆς δίχα ῥυείσης τὸ μὲν ὥσπερ ἐν χωρίοις σκληροῖς τοῖς ἀντιτύποις ἤθεσι τὴν ἀθεότητα, τὸ δʼ ὥσπερ ἐν ὑγροῖς τοῖς ἁπαλοῖς τὴν δεισιδαιμονίαν πεποίηκεν. ἅπασα μὲν οὖν κρίσις ψευδής, ἄλλως τε κἂν ᾖ περὶ ταῦτα, μοχθηρόν· ᾗ δὲ καὶ πάθος πρόσεστι, μοχθηρότατον. πᾶν γὰρ πάθος ἔοικε πληγὴ πληγὴ H: ἀπάτη φλεγμαίνουσα εἶναι· καὶ καθάπερ αἱ μετὰ τραύματος ἐκβολαὶ τῶν ἄρθρων, οὕτως αἱ μετὰ πάθους διαστροφαὶ τῆς ψυχῆς χαλεπώτεραι. ἀτόμους τις οἴεται καὶ κενὸν ἀρχὰς εἶναι τῶν ὅλων ψευδὴς ἡ ὑπόληψις, ἀλλʼ ἕλκος οὐ ποιεῖ οὐδὲ σφυγμὸν οὐδʼ ὀδύνην ταράττουσαν. ὑπολαμβάνει τις τὸν πλοῦτον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι μέγιστον· τοῦτο τὸ ψεῦδος ἰὸν ἔχει, νέμεται τὴν ψυχήν, ἐξίστησιν, οὐκ ἐᾷ καθεύδειν, οἴστρων ἐμπίπλησιν, ὠθεῖ κατὰ πετρῶν, ἄγχει, τὴν παρρησίαν ἀφαιρεῖται. πάλιν οἴονταί τινες εἶναι σῶμα τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ τὴν κακίαν· αἰσχρὸν ἴσως τὸ ἀγνόημα, θρήνων δὲ καὶ ὀδυρμῶν οὐκ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-13"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/#tlg0007-tlg080-local001-14"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg080.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg080/local001.json.gz"}}