{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg096.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg096.local001","title":"Περὶ εὐθυμίας","titleGreek":"Περὶ εὐθυμίας","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/208","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ εὐθυμίας. ed. Grēgorios N.Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1891. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg096.local001","excerpt":"Πλούταρχος Πακκίῳ εὖ πράττειν. ὀψέ σου τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἐκομισάμην, ἐν παρεκάλεις περὶ εὐθυμίας σοί τι γραφῆναι καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐν Τιμαίῳ δεομένων ἐπιμελεστέρας ἐξηγήσεως. ἅμα δέ πως τὸν ἑταῖρον ἡμῶν Ἔρωτα κατελάμβανεν αἰτία τοῦ πλεῖν εὐθὺς εἰς Ῥώμην, παρὰ Φουνδάνου τοῦ κρατίστου γράμματα δεδεγμένον, οἷος ἐκεῖνος, ἐπιταχύνοντα. μήτε δὲ χρόνον ἔχων, ὡς προῃρούμην, γενέσθαι πρὸς οἷς ἐβούλου μήτε ὑπομένων κεναῖς παντάπασι τὸν ἄνδρα χερσὶν ὀφθῆναί σοι παρʼ ἡμῶν ἀφιγμένον, ἀνελεξάμην περὶ εὐθυμίας ἐκ τῶν ὑπομνημάτων ὧν ἐμαυτῷ πεποιημένος ἐτύγχανον ἡγούμενος καὶ σὲ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον οὐκ ἀκροάσεως ἕνεκα θηρωμένης καλλιγραφίαν ἀλλὰ χρείας βιωτικῆς ἐπιζητεῖν, καὶ συνηδόμενος, ὅτι καὶ φιλίας ἔχων ἡγεμονικὰς καὶ δόξαν οὐδενὸς ἐλάττονα τῶν ἐν ἀγορᾷ λεγόντων τὸ τοῦ τραγικοῦ Μέροπος οὐ πέπονθας, οὐδʼ ὡς ἐκεῖνον εὐδαιμονίζων ὄχλος ὄχλος idem: ὁ ὄχλος cf. Nauck. p. 606 ἐξέπληξε σε versum effecit Meinekius…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-13"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-14"},{"label":"§ 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-15"},{"label":"§ 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-16"},{"label":"§ 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-17"},{"label":"§ 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-18"},{"label":"§ 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-19"},{"label":"§ 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/#tlg0007-tlg096-local001-20"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg096.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg096/local001.json.gz"}}