{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0019.tlg011.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg011.local001","title":"Πλοῦτος","titleGreek":"Πλοῦτος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aristophanes","authorityName":"ARISTOPHANES Comic.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0019-aristophanes/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0019-aristophanes/","editors":["F. W. Hall","W. M. Geldart"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Aristophanis Comoediae","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1907","volume":"2","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 Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/aristophaniscomo02arisuoft/page/216/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristophanes. Πλοῦτος. ed. F. W. Hall, W. M. Geldart. Aristophanis Comoediae, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1907. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg011.local001","excerpt":"Καρίων ὡς ἀργαλέον πρᾶγμʼ ἐστὶν ὦ Ζεῦ καὶ θεοὶ δοῦλον γενέσθαι παραφρονοῦντος δεσπότου. ἢν γὰρ τὰ βέλτισθʼ ὁ θεράπων λέξας τύχῃ, δόξῃ δὲ μὴ δρᾶν ταῦτα τῷ κεκτημένῳ, μετέχειν ἀνάγκη τὸν θεράποντα τῶν κακῶν. τοῦ σώματος γὰρ οὐκ ἐᾷ τὸν κύριον κρατεῖν ὁ δαίμων, ἀλλὰ τὸν ἐωνημένον. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ταῦτα. τῷ δὲ Λοξίᾳ, ὃς θεσπιῳδεῖ τρίποδος ἐκ χρυσηλάτου, μέμψιν δικαίαν μέμφομαι ταύτην, ὅτι ἰατρὸς ὢν καὶ μάντις, ὥς φασιν, σοφὸς μελαγχολῶντʼ ἀπέπεμψέ μου τὸν δεσπότην, ὅστις ἀκολουθεῖ κατόπιν ἀνθρώπου τυφλοῦ, τοὐναντίον δρῶν ἢ προσῆκʼ αὐτῷ ποιεῖν. οἱ γὰρ βλέποντες τοῖς τυφλοῖς ἡγούμεθα, οὗτος δʼ ἀκολουθεῖ, κἀμὲ προσβιάζεται, καὶ ταῦτʼ ἀποκρινομένῳ τὸ παράπαν οὐδὲ γρῦ. ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν οὐκ ἔσθʼ ὅπως σιγήσομαι, ἢν μὴ φράσῃς ὅ τι τῷδʼ ἀκολουθοῦμέν ποτε ὦ δέσποτʼ, ἀλλά σοι παρέξω πράγματα. οὐ γάρ με τυπτήσεις στέφανον ἔχοντά γε. Χρεμύλος μὰ Δίʼ ἀλλʼ ἀφελὼν τὸν στέφανον, ἢν λυπῇς τί με, ἵνα μᾶλλον…","divisions":[{"label":"Prologue 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-1"},{"label":"Parodos 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-2"},{"label":"Lyric-Scene 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-3"},{"label":"Episode 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-4"},{"label":"Agon 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-5"},{"label":"Episode 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-6"},{"label":"Episode 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-7"},{"label":"Episode 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-8"},{"label":"Episode 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-9"},{"label":"Episode 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-10"},{"label":"Episode 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-11"},{"label":"Episode 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-12"},{"label":"Exodus 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/#tlg0019-tlg011-local001-13"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0019.tlg011.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0019/tlg011/local001.json.gz"}}