{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg130.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg130.local001","title":"Περὶ τοῦ τὰ ἄλογα λόγῳ χρῆσθαι","titleGreek":"Περὶ τοῦ τὰ ἄλογα λόγῳ χρῆσθαι","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":"1895","volume":"6","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/moralia06plut/page/82","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ τοῦ τὰ ἄλογα λόγῳ χρῆσθαι. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1895. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg130.local001","excerpt":"Ὀδυσσεύς. ταῦτα μέν, ὦ Κίρκη, μεμαθηκέναι δοκῶ καὶ διαμνημονεύσειν· ἡδέως δʼ ἄν σου πυθοίμην, εἴ τινας ἔχεις Ἕλληνας ἐν τούτοις, οὓς λύκους καὶ λέοντας ἐξ ἀνθρώπων πεποίηκας. ΚΙΡΚΗ. καὶ πολλούς, ὦ ποθούμενʼ Ὀδυσσεῦ. πρὸς τί δὲ τοῦτο ἐρωτᾷς; ΟΔ. ὅτι νὴ Δία καλὴν ἄν μοι δοκῶ γενέσθαι φιλοτιμίαν πρὸς τοὺς Ἕλληνας, εἰ χάριτι σῇ λαβὼν τούτους, αὖθις εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἑταίρους ἀνασώσαιμι καὶ μὴ περιίδοιμι καταγηράσαντας παρὰ φύσιν ἐν σώμασι θηρίων, οἰκτρὰν καὶ ἄτιμον οὕτω δίαιταν ἔχοντας. ΚΙΡ. οὗτος ὁ ἀνὴρ οὐχ αὑτῷ μόνον οὐδὲ τοῖς ἑταίροις, ἀλλὰ τοῖς μηδὲν προσήκουσιν οἴεται δεῖν ὑπʼ ἀβελτερίας συμφορὰν γενέσθαι τὴν αὑτοῦ φιλοτιμίαν. ΟΔ. ἕτερον αὖ τινα τοῦτον, ὦ Κίρκη, κυκεῶνα 20 λόγων ταράττεις καὶ ὑποφαρμάττεις, ἐμὲ γοῦν ἀτεχνῶς ρατιονε δτι; ποιοῦσα θηρίον, εἰ πείσομαί σοι ὡς συμφορὰ ἐστιν ἄνθρωπον ἐκ θηρίου γενέσθαι. ΚΙΡ. οὐ γὰρ ἢδη τούτων ἀτοπώτερα πεποίηκας σεαυτόν, ὃς τὸν ἀθάνατον καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/#tlg0007-tlg130-local001-10"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg130.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg130/local001.json.gz"}}