{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg131.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg131.local001","title":"Περὶ σαρκοφαγίας λόγος α′","titleGreek":"Περὶ σαρκοφαγίας λόγος α′","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/101","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ σαρκοφαγίας λόγος α′. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1895. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg131.local001","excerpt":"ἀλλὰ σὺ μὲν ἐρωτᾷς; τίνι λόγῳ Πυθαγόρας ἀπείχετο σαρκοφαγίας, ἐγὼ δὲ θαυμάζω καὶ τίνι πάθει καὶ ποίᾳ ψυχῇ ἢ λόγῳ ὁ πρῶτος ἄνθρωπος ἥψατο φόνου στόματι καὶ τεθνηκότος ζῴου χείλεσι προσήψατο σαρκός· καὶ νεκρῶν σωμάτων καὶ ἑώλων προθέμενος τραπέζας ὄψα καὶ τρυφὰς καὶ προσέτι εἰπεῖν τὰ μικρὸν ἔμπροσθεν βρυχώμενα μέρη καὶ φθεγγόμενα καὶ κινούμενα καὶ βλέποντα· πῶς ἡ ὄψις ὑπέμεινε τὸν φόνον σφαζομένων δερομένων διαμελιζομένων, πῶς ἡ ὄσφρησις ἤνεγκε τὴν ἀποφοράν πῶς τὴν γεῦσιν οὐκ ἀπέτρεψεν ὁ μολυσμὸς ἑλκῶν ψαύουσαν ἀλλοτρίων καὶ τραυμάτων θανασίμων χυμοὺς· καὶ ἰχῶρας ἀπολαμβάνουσαν. εἷρπον μὲν ῥινοί, κρέα δʼ ἀμφʼ ὀβελοῖς ἐμεμύκει ὀπταλέα τε καὶ ὠμά, βοῶν δʼ ὣς γίγνετο φωνὴ τοῦτο πλάσμα καὶ μῦθός ἐστι, τὸ δέ γε δεῖπνον ἀληθῶς τερατῶδες, πεινῆν τινα τῶν μυκωμένων ἔτι, καὶ διδάσκοντα ἀφʼ ὧν δεῖ τρέφεσθαι ζώντων ἔτι καὶ λαλούντων, καὶ διαταττόμενον ἀρτύσεις τινὰς καὶ ὀπτήσεις καὶ παραθέσεις·…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001/3-3/"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001/4-4/"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001/5-5/"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001/6-6/"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001/7-7/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg131.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg131/local001.json.gz"}}