{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg122.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg122.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg122.local001","title":"Συγκρίσεως Ἀριστοφάνους καὶ Μενάνδρου ἐπιτομή","titleGreek":"Συγκρίσεως Ἀριστοφάνους καὶ Μενάνδρου ἐπιτομή","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/203","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Συγκρίσεως Ἀριστοφάνους καὶ Μενάνδρου ἐπιτομή. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1893. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg122.local001","excerpt":"ὠς μὲν κοινῶς καὶ καθόλου εἰπεῖν πολλῷ προκρίνει τὸν Μένανδρον, ὡς δʼ ἐπὶ μέρους καὶ ταῦτα προστίθησι τὸ φορτικόν φησὶν ἐν λόγοις καὶ θυμελικὸν καὶ βάναυσον ὥς ἐστιν Ἀριστοφάνει, Μενάνδρῳ δʼ οὐδαμῶς. καὶ γὰρ ὁ μὲν ἀπαίδευτος καὶ ἰδιώτης, οἷς ἐκεῖνος λέγει, ἁλίσκεται ὁ δὲ πεπαιδευμένος δυσχερανεῖ· λέγω δὲ τὰ ἀντίθετα καὶ ὁμοιόπτωτα καὶ παρωνυμίας. τούτοις γὰρ ὁ μὲν μετὰ τοῦ προσήκοντος λόγου καὶ ὀλιγάκις χρῆται ἐπιμελείας αὐτὰ ἀξιῶν, ὁ δὲ καὶ πολλάκις καὶ οὐκ εὐκαίρως καὶ ψυχρῶς· ἐπαινεῖται γάρ φησὶν ʼ ὅτι τοὺς ταμίας ἐβάπτισεν, οὐχὶ ταμίας ἀλλὰ Λαμίας ὄντας· καὶ οὗτος ἤτοι καικίας ἢ συκοφαντίας πνεῖ καὶ γάστριζε καὶ τοῖς ἐντέροις καὶ τοῖς κόλοις καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ γέλωτος εἰς Γέλαν ἀφίξομαι καὶ τί δῆτα σοι δράσω, κακόδαιμον, ἀμφορεὺς ἑξοστρακισθείς; καὶ ἄγρια γὰρ ἡμᾶς, ὦ γυναῖκες, δρᾷ κακά, ἅτʼ ἐν ἀγρίοισι τοῖς λαχάνοις αὐτὸς τραφείς καὶ ἀλλʼ ἦ τριχόβρωτες τὸν λόφον μου κατέφαγον καὶ φέρε…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg122.local001/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg122.local001/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg122.local001/3-3/"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg122.local001/4-4/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg122.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg122.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg122/local001.json.gz"}}