{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg086.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg086.local002","title":"Περὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων τύχης","titleGreek":"Περὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων τύχης","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":"1889","volume":"2","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/moralia02plutuoft/page/383","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων τύχης. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1889. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg086.local002","excerpt":"αἱ πολλοὺς πολλάκις ἠγωνισμέναι καὶ μεγάλους ἀγῶνας Ἀρετὴ καὶ Τύχη πρὸς ἀλλήλοις μέγιστον ἀγωνίζονται τὸν παρόντα, περὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίας διαδικαζόμεναι ποτέρας γέγονεν ἔργον καὶ ποτέρα τὴν τηλικαύτην δύναμιν γεγέννηκεν. οὐ γὰρ μικρὸν ἔσται τῇ περιγενομένῃ τοῦτο μαρτύριον, μᾶλλον δʼ ἀπολόγημα πρὸς κατηγορίαν. κατηγορεῖται δʼ Ἀρετὴ Ἀρετὴ] ἀρετῆς Cobetus μὲν ὡς καλὸν μὲν καλὸν μὲν R: καλὸν ἀνωφελὲς δέ, Τύχη Τύχη] τύχης δὲ Cobetus δʼ ὡς ἀβέβαιον μὲν ἀγαθὸν δέ· καὶ τὴν μὲν ἄκαρπα πονεῖν λέγουσι, τὴν δʼ ἄπιστα δωρεῖσθαι. τίς οὖν οὐχὶ λέξει, τῇ ἑτέρᾳ τῆς Ῥώμης προστεθείσης, ἢ λυσιτελέστατον Ἀρετήν, εἰ τηλικαῦτα τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς δέδρακεν ἀγαθά· ἢ βεβαιότατον εὐτυχίαν, χρόνον ἤδη τοσοῦτον ἃ δέδωκε τηροῦσαν; Ἴων μὲν οὖν ὁ ποιητὴς ἐν τοῖς δίχα μέτρου καὶ καταλογάδην αὐτῷ γεγραμμένοις φησὶν ἀνομοιότατον πρᾶγμα πρᾶγμα] del. Abreschius τῇ σοφίᾳ τὴν τύχην οὖσαν ὁμοιοτάτων πραγμάτων πραγμάτων] del.…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/#tlg0007-tlg086-local002-13"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg086.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg086/local002.json.gz"}}