{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg120.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg120.local001","title":"Περὶ τοῦ μὴ δεῖν δανείζεσθαι","titleGreek":"Περὶ τοῦ μὴ δεῖν δανείζεσθαι","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/134","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ τοῦ μὴ δεῖν δανείζεσθαι. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1893. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg120.local001","excerpt":"ὅ Πλάτων ἐν τοῖς Νόμοις Νόμοις] de Legg. p. 844b οὐκ ἐᾷ μεταλαμβάνειν ὕδατος ἀλλοτρίου τοὺς γείτονας, ἂν μὴ παρʼ αὑτοῖς ὀρύξαντες ἄχρι τῆς κεραμίτιδος καλουμένης γῆς ἄγονον εὕρωσι νάματος τὸ χωρίον· ἡ γὰρ κεραμῖτις φύσιν ἔχουσα λιπαρὰν καὶ πυκνὴν στέγει παραλαβοῦσα τὸ ὑγρὸν καὶ οὐ διίησι· δεῖν δεῖν X: δεῖ δὲ μεταλαμβάνειν τἀλλοτρίου*: τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου τοὺς ἴδιον κτήσασθαι μὴ δυναμένους· ἀπορίᾳ γὰρ βοηθεῖν βοηθεῖν] add. ἔφη R τὸν νόμον. ἆρʼ οὐib. ἆρ’ οὐ Duebnerus: ἆρα vel ἄρα δὴ ἔδει καὶ δὴ ἔδει καὶ W: δέδεικται περὶ χρημάτων εἶναιib. εἶναι] θεῖναι R νόμον, ὅπως μὴ δανείζωνται παρʼ ἑτέρων μηδʼ ἐπʼ ἀλλοτρίας πηγὰς βαδίζωσι, μὴ πρότερον οἴκοι τὰς αὑτῶν ἀφορμὰς ἐξελέγξαντες καὶ συναγαγόντες ὥσπερ ἐκ λιβάδων τὸ χρήσιμον καὶ ἀναγκαῖον αὑτοῖς; νυνὶ δʼ ὑπὸ τρυφῆς καὶ μαλακίας ἢ πολυτελείας οὐ χρῶνται τοῖς ἑαυτῶν, ἔχοντες, ἀλλὰ λαμβάνουσιν ἐπὶ πολλῷ παρʼ ἑτέρων, μὴ δεόμενοι· τεκμήριον δὲ μέγα·…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/#tlg0007-tlg120-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/#tlg0007-tlg120-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/#tlg0007-tlg120-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/#tlg0007-tlg120-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/#tlg0007-tlg120-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/#tlg0007-tlg120-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/#tlg0007-tlg120-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/#tlg0007-tlg120-local001-8"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg120.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg120/local001.json.gz"}}