{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg098.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg098.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg098.local001","title":"Περὶ τῆς εἰς τὰ ἔκγονα φιλοστοργίας","titleGreek":"Περὶ τῆς εἰς τὰ ἔκγονα φιλοστοργίας","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/278","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ τῆς εἰς τὰ ἔκγονα φιλοστοργίας. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1891. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg098.local001","excerpt":"ἔκκλητοι κρίσεις καὶ ξενικῶν δικαστηρίων ἀγωγαὶ ἀγωγαὶ] vid. Symbolas τοῖς Ἕλλησι τὸ πρῶτον ἀπιστίᾳ τῇ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐπενοήθησαν, ἀλλοτρίας δικαιοσύνης ὥσπερ ἑτέρου τινὸς τῶν ἀναγκαίων μὴ φυομένου παρʼ αὐτοῖς δεηθεῖσιν. ἆρʼ οὖν καὶ οἱ φιλόσοφοι τῶν προβλημάτων ἔνια διὰ τὰς πρὸς ἀλλήλους διαφορὰς ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἀλόγων φύσιν ζῴων ὥσπερ ἀλλοδαπὴν πόλιν ἐκκαλοῦνται, καὶ τοῖς ἐκείνων πάθεσι καὶ ἤθεσιν ὡς ἀνεντεύκτοις καὶ ἀδεκάστοις ἐφιᾶσι τὴν κρίσιν; ἢ καὶ τοῦτο τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης κακίας ἔγκλημα κοινόν ἐστι, τὸ περὶ τῶν ἀναγκαιοτάτων καὶ μεγίστων ἀμφιδοξοῦντας ἡμᾶς ζητεῖν ἐν ἵπποις καὶ κυσὶ καὶ ὄρνισι, πῶς γαμοῦμεν αὐτοὶ καὶ γεννῶμεν καὶ τεκνοτροφοῦμεν, ὡς μηδὲν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς δήλωμα τῆς φύσεως ὂν τὰ τὰ] καὶ τὰ R τῶν θηρίων ἤθη καὶ πάθη προσαγορεῦσαι καὶ καταμαρτυρῆσαι τοῦ βίου ἡμῶν πολλὴν τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἐκδιαίτησιν καὶ παράβασιν, εὐθὺς ἐν ἀρχῇ καὶ περὶ τὰ πρῶτα συγχεομένων καὶ ταραττομένων. ἄκρατον…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg098.local001/#tlg0007-tlg098-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg098.local001/#tlg0007-tlg098-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg098.local001/#tlg0007-tlg098-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg098.local001/#tlg0007-tlg098-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg098.local001/#tlg0007-tlg098-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg098.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg098.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg098/local001.json.gz"}}