{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg104.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg104.local001","title":"Περὶ δυσωπίας","titleGreek":"Περὶ δυσωπίας","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","Michael Konieczny"]},{"role":"CTS conversion","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/moralia03plut/page/368","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ δυσωπίας. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1891. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg104.local001","excerpt":"ἔνια τῶν ἐκ τῆς γῆς φυομένων αὐτὰ μέν ἐστιν ἄγρια τῇ φύσει καὶ ἄκαρπα καὶ βλαβερὰν τοῖς ἡμέροις σπέρμασι καὶ φυτοῖς τὴν αὔξησιν ἔχοντα, σημεῖα δʼ αὐτὰ ποιοῦνται χώρας οἱ γεωργοῦντες οὐ πονηρᾶς ἀλλὰ γενναίας καὶ πίονος· οὕτω δὴ καὶ πάθη ψυχῆς ἐστιν οὐ χρηστά, χρηστῆς δὲ φύσεως οἷον ἐξανθήματα καὶ λόγῳ παρασχεῖν ἐργάσιμον ἑαυτὴν ἐπιεικῶς δυναμένης.cf. Kock. 3 p. 494 ἐν τούτοις τίθεμαι καὶ τὴν λεγομένην δυσωπίαν, σημεῖον μὲν οὐ φαῦλον αἰτίαν δὲ μοχθηρίας οὖσαν. τὰ γὰρ αὐτὰ τοῖς ἀναισχύντοις οἱ· αἰσχυνόμενοι πολλάκις ἁμαρτάνουσι, πλὴν ὅτι τὸ λυπεῖσθαι καὶ ἀλγεῖν ἐφʼ οἷς διαμαρτάνουσι τούτοις πρόσεστιν οὐχ ὡς ἐκείνοις τὸ ἥδεσθαι. ἀναλγὴς μὲν γὰρ ὁ ἀναιδὴς πρὸς τὸ αἰσχρόν, εὐπαθὴς δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὸ φαινόμενον αἰσχρὸν ὁ εὐδυσώπητος. ὑπερβολὴ γὰρ τοῦ αἰσχύνεσθαι τὸ δυσωπεῖσθαι. διὸ καὶ οὕτω κέκληται, τρόπον τινὰ τοῦ προσώπου τῇ ψυχῇ συνδιατρεπομένου καὶ συνεξατονοῦντος. ὡς γὰρ τὴν κατήφειαν…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-13"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-14"},{"label":"§ 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-15"},{"label":"§ 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-16"},{"label":"§ 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-17"},{"label":"§ 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-18"},{"label":"§ 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/#tlg0007-tlg104-local001-19"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg104.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg104/local001.json.gz"}}