{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg087.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg087.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg087.local001","title":"Περὶ τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου τύχης ἢ ἀρετῆς λόγος Α, λόγος Β","titleGreek":"Περὶ τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου τύχης ἢ ἀρετῆς λόγος Α, λόγος Β","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Frank Cole Babbitt"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Moralia","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1936","volume":"4","series":"Loeb Classical Library","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/moraliainfifteen04plutuoft/page/378","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου τύχης ἢ ἀρετῆς λόγος Α, λόγος Β. ed. Frank Cole Babbitt. Moralia, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1936. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg087.local001","excerpt":"οὗτος ὁ τῆς Τύχης λόγος ἐστίν, ἴδιον καὶ μόνης αὑτῆς ἔργον ἀποφαινομένης Ἀλέξανδρον. δεῖ δʼ ἀντειπεῖν ὑπὲρ φιλοσοφίας, μᾶλλον δʼ ὑπὲρ Ἀλεξάνδρου δυσχεραίνοντος καὶ ἀγανακτοῦντος, εἰ προῖκα δόξει καὶ παρὰ τῆς Τύχης λαβεῖν τὴν ἡγεμονίαν, ἣν ὤνιον αἵματος πολλοῦ καὶ τραυμάτων ἐπαλλήλων κτώμενος πολλὰς μὲν ἀύπνους νύκτας ἴαυεν, ἤματα δʼ αἱματόεντα διέπρησσεν πολεμίζων πρὸς ἀμάχους δυνάμεις καὶ ἄπειρα φῦλα καὶ ποταμοὺς ἀπεράτους καὶ πέτρας ἀτοξεύτους, εὐβουλίᾳ καὶ καρτερίᾳ καὶ ἀνδρείᾳ καὶ σωφροσύνῃ παραπεμπόμενος. οἶμαι δʼ ἂν αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν πρὸς τὴν Τύχην τοῖς κατορθώμασιν αὑτὴν ἐπιγράφουσαν, μή μου διάβαλλε τὴν ἀρετὴν μηδʼ ἀφαιροῦ περισπῶσα τὴν δόξαν. Δαρεῖος ἦν σὸν ἔργον, ὃν ἐκ δούλου καὶ ἀστάνδου βασιλέως κύριον Περσῶν ἐποίησας· καὶ Σαρδανάπαλλος, ᾧ τὸ διάδημα τῆς βασιλείας πορφύραν ξαίνοντι περιέθηκας. ἐγὼ δʼ εἰς Σοῦσα νικῶν διʼ Ἀρβήλων ἀναβέβηκα, καὶ Κιλικία μοι πλατεῖαν ἀνέῳξεν…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg087.local001/#tlg0007-tlg087-local001-1"},{"label":"Περὶ τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου τύχης ἢ ἀρετῆς λόγος Β","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg087.local001/#tlg0007-tlg087-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg087.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg087.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg087/local001.json.gz"}}