{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg116.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg116.local001","title":"Πρὸς ἡγεμόνα ἀπαίδευτον","titleGreek":"Πρὸς ἡγεμόνα ἀπαίδευτον","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":"1893","volume":"5","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/moralia05plut/page/11","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Πρὸς ἡγεμόνα ἀπαίδευτον. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1893. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg116.local001","excerpt":"Πλάτωνα Κυρηναῖοι παρεκάλουν νόμους τε γραψάμενον αὐτοῖς ἀπολιπεῖν καὶ διακοσμῆσαρ τὴν πολιτείαν, ὁ δὲ παρῃτήσατο φήσας χαλεπὸν εἶναι Κυρηναίοις νομοθετεῖν οὕτως εὐτυχοῦσιν οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτω γαῦρον καὶ τραχὺ καὶ δύσαρκτον ὡς ἀνὴρ ἔφυ Nauck. p. 617 εὐπραγίας δοκούσης ἐπιλαμβανόμενος. διὸ τοῖς ἄρχουσι χαλεπόν ἐστι σύμβουλον περὶ ἀρχῆς; γενέσθαι τὸν γὰρ λόγον ὥσπερ ἄρχοντα παραδέξασθαι φοβοῦνται, μὴ τῆς ἐξουσίας αὐτῶν τἀγαθὸν τἀγαθὸν *: τὸ ἀγαθὸν κολούσῃ τῷ καθήκοντι δουλωσάμενος;. οὐ γὰρ ἴσασι τὰ Θεοπόμπου τοῦ Σπαρτιατῶν βασιλέως, ὃς πρῶτος ἐν Σπάρτῃ τοῖς βασιλεύουσι καταμίξας τοὺς Ἐφόρους, εἶτʼ ὀνειδιζόμενος ὑπὸ τῆς γυναικός, εἰ τοῖς παισὶν ἐλάττονα παραδώσει τὴν ἀρχὴν ἧς παρέλαβε, μείζονα μὲν οὖν εἶπεν ὅσῳ καὶ βεβαιοτέραν τὸ γὰρ σφοδρὸν ἀνεὶς καὶ ἄκρατον αὐτῆς ἅμα τῷ φθόνῳ διέφυγε τὸν κίνδυνον. καίτοι Θεόπομπος μὲν εἰς ἑτέρους τὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς ὥσπερ ῥεύματος μεγάλου παροχετευσάμενος, ὅσον…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001/#tlg0007-tlg116-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001/#tlg0007-tlg116-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001/#tlg0007-tlg116-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001/#tlg0007-tlg116-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001/#tlg0007-tlg116-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001/#tlg0007-tlg116-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001/#tlg0007-tlg116-local001-7"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg116.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg116/local001.json.gz"}}