{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg093.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg093.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg093.local001","title":"Εἰ διδακτὸν ἡ ἀρετή","titleGreek":"Εἰ διδακτὸν ἡ ἀρετή","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":"1891","volume":"3","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/moralia03plut/page/142","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Εἰ διδακτὸν ἡ ἀρετή. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1891. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg093.local001","excerpt":"περὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς βουλευόμεθα καὶ διαποροῦμεν, εἰ διδακτόν ἐστι τὸ φρονεῖν τὸ δικαιοπραγεῖν τὸ εὖ ζῆν· εἶτʼ οὐ εἶτ’ οὐ R: εἶτα θαυμάζομεν, εἰ ῥητόρων μὲν ἔργα καὶ κυβερνητῶν καὶ ἁρμονικῶν καὶ οἰκοδόμων καὶ γεωργῶν μυρία γʼ μυρία γʼ Stobaeus: μυρία δʼ ἐστίν· ἀγαθοὶ δʼ ἄνδρες ὀνομάζονται καὶ λέγονται μόνον, ὡς ἱπποκένταυροι καὶ γίγαντες καὶ κύκλωπες, ἔργον δʼ ἀμεμφὲς εἰς ἀρετὴν καὶ ἀκέραιον καὶ ἀκέραιον] del. W οὐκ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν οὐδὲ πάθους ἀκέραιον ἦθος καὶ ἄθικτον αἰσχροῦ βίον βίου *: βίου καὶ ἀκέραιον ἀλλʼ εἰ καί τι καλὸν ἡ φύσις αὐτομάτως ἐκφέρει, τοῦτο πολλῷ τῷ ἀλλοτρίῳ, καθάπερ ὕλῃ καρπὸς ἀγρίᾳ καὶ ἀκαθάρτῳ μιγνύμενος, μιγνύμενον S ἐξαμαυροῦται. ψάλλειν μανθάνουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ ὀρχεῖσθαι καὶ ἀναγιγνώσκειν γράμματα καὶ γεωργεῖν καὶ ἱππεύειν ὑποδεῖσθαι μανθάνουσι περιβάλλεσθαι καὶ ἀλείφεσθαι· οἰνοχοεῖν διδάσκουσιν ὀψοποιεῖν ταῦτʼ ἄνευ τοῦ μαθεῖν οὐκ ἔστι χρησίμως; ποιεῖν. διʼ ὃ δὲ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg093.local001/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg093.local001/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg093.local001/3-3/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg093.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg093.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg093/local001.json.gz"}}