{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0015.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0015.tlg001.local001","title":"Ab excessu divi Marci","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Herodian","authorityName":"HERODIANUS Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0015-herodianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0015-herodianus/","editors":["Immanuel Bekker"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Herodiani Ab excessu divi Marci","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1855","volume":null,"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":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":[],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ghIMAAAAYAAJ","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Herodian. Ab excessu divi Marci. ed. Immanuel Bekker. Herodiani Ab excessu divi Marci, Leipzig, Teubner, 1855. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0015.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Οἱ πλεῖστοι τῶν περὶ συγκομιδὴν ἱστορίας ἀσχοληθέντων ἔργων τε πάλαι γεγονότων μνήμην ἀνανεώσασθαι σπουδασάντων, παιδείας κλέος ἀίδιον μνώμενοι, ὡς ἂν μὴ σιωπήσαντες λάθοιεν ἐς τὸν πολὺν ὅμιλον ἀριθμούμενοι, τῆς μὲν ἀληθείας ἐν ταῖς ἀφηγήσεσιν ὠλιγώρησαν, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ ἐπεμελήθησαν φράσεώς τε καὶ εὐφωνίας, θαρροῦντες ὡς, εἴ τι καὶ μυθῶδες λέγοιεν, τὸ μὲν ἡδὺ τῆς ἀκροάσεως αὐτοὶ καρπώσονται, τὸ δ̓ ἀκριβὲς τῆς ἐξετάσεως οὐκ ἐλεγχθήσεται. εἰσὶ δ̓ οἳ πρὸς ἔχθραν ἢ μῖσος τυράννων, κολακείαν τε ἢ τιμὴν βασιλέων πόλεώς τε καὶ ἰδιωτῶν, εὐτελῆ καὶ μικρὰ ἔργα λόγων ἀρετῇ δόξῃ παρέδοσαν τῆς ἀληθείας μείζονι. ἐγὼ δὲ ἱστορίαν οὐ παῤ ἄλλων ἀποδεξάμενος ἄγνωστόν τε καὶ ἀμάρτυρον, ὑπὸ νεαρᾷ δὲ τῇ τῶν ἐντευξομένων μνήμῃ, μετὰ πάσης ἀκριβείας ἤθροισα ἐς συγγραφήν, οὐκ ἀτερπῆ τὴν γνῶσιν καὶ τοῖς ὕστερον ἔσεσθαι προσδοκήσας ἔργων μεγάλων τε καὶ πολλῶν ἐν ὀλίγῳ χρόνῳ γενομένων. εἰ γοῦν τις παραβάλοι πάντα…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/#tlg0015-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/#tlg0015-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/#tlg0015-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/#tlg0015-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/#tlg0015-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/#tlg0015-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/#tlg0015-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/#tlg0015-tlg001-local001-8"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0015.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0015/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}