{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg132.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg132.local001","title":"Περὶ σαρκοφαγίας λόγος β′","titleGreek":"Περὶ σαρκοφαγίας λόγος β′","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/110","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Περὶ σαρκοφαγίας λόγος β′. ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs. Moralia, Leipzig, Teubner, 1895. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg132.local001","excerpt":"επὶ τὰ ἕωλοι τῆς σαρκοφαγίοις προσφάτους ἡμᾶς ὁ λόγος παρακαλεῖ ταῖς τε διανοίαις καὶ ταῖς προθυμίαις γενέσθαι. χαλεπὸν μὲν γάρ, ὥσπερ ὁ Κάτων ἔφησε, λέγειν πρὸς γαστέρας ὦτα μὴ ἐχούσας· καὶ πέποται ὁ τῆς συνηθείας κυκεών, ὥσπερ ὁ τῆς Κίρκης ὠδίνας ὀδύνας κυκεὼν ἀπάτας τε γόους τε· καὶ τὸ ἄγκιστρον ἐκβάλλειν τῆς σαρκοφαγίας ὡς ἐμπεπηγμένον τῇ φιληδονίᾳ καὶ διαπεπαρμένον οὐ ῥᾴδιόν ἐστιν. ἐπεὶ καλῶς εἶχεν, ὥσπερ Αἰγύπτιοι τῶν νεκρῶν τὴν κοιλίαν ἐξελόντες καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον ἀνασχίζοντες ἐκβάλλουσιν ὡς αἰτίαν ἁπάντων ὧν ὁ ἄνθρωπος; ἥμαρτεν, οὕτως ἡμᾶς ἑαυτῶν τὴν γαστριμαργίαν καὶ μιαιφονίαν ἐκτεμόντας ἁγνεῦσαι τὸν λοιπὸν βίον ἐπεὶ ἥ γε γαστὴρ οὐ μιαιφόνον ἐστὶν ἀλλὰ μιαινόμενον ἀπὸ τῆς ἀκρασίας. οὐ μὴν ἀλλʼ εἰ καὶ ἀδύνατον νὴ Δία διὰ τὴν συνήθειαν τὸ ἀναμάρτητον, αἰσχυνόμενοι τῷ ἁμαρτάνοντι χρησόμεθα διὰ τὸν λόγον, ἐδόμεθα σάρκας, ἀλλὰ πεινῶντες οὐ τρυφῶντες· ἀναιρήσομεν ζῷον, ἀλλʼ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001/3-3/"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001/4-4/"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001/5-5/"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001/6-6/"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001/7-7/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg132.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg132/local001.json.gz"}}