{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0032.tlg008.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg008.local001","title":"Ἱέρων","titleGreek":"Ἱέρων","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Xenophon","authorityName":"XENOPHON Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0032-xenophon/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0032-xenophon/","editors":["Edgar Carew Marchant"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1920","volume":"5","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/operaomniarecogn05xenouoft/page/4/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Xenophon. Ἱέρων. ed. Edgar Carew Marchant. Opera Omnia, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg008.local001","excerpt":"Σιμωνίδης ὁ ποιητὴς ἀφίκετό ποτε πρὸς Ἱέρωνα τὸν τύραννον. σχολῆς δὲ γενομένης ἀμφοῖν εἶπεν ὁ Σιμωνίδης· ἆρʼ ἄν μοι ἐθελήσαις, ὦ Ἱέρων, διηγήσασθαι ἃ εἰκὸς εἰδέναι σε βέλτιον ἐμοῦ; καὶ ποῖα ταῦτʼ ἐστίν, ἔφη ὁ Ἱέρων, ὁποῖα δὴ ἐγὼ βέλτιον ἂν εἰδείην σοῦ οὕτως ὄντος σοφοῦ ἀνδρός; οἶδά σε, ἔφη, ἐγὼ καὶ ἰδιώτην γεγενημένον καὶ νῦν τύραννον ὄντα· εἰκὸς οὖν ἀμφοτέρων πεπειραμένον καὶ εἰδέναι σε μᾶλλον ἐμοῦ πῇ διαφέρει ὁ τυραννικός τε καὶ ὁ ἰδιωτικὸς βίος εἰς εὐφροσύνας τε καὶ λύπας ἀνθρώποις. τί οὖν, ἔφη ὁ Ἱέρων, οὐχὶ καὶ σύ, ἐπεὶ νῦν γε ἔτι ἰδιώτης εἶ, ὑπέμνησάς με τὰ ἐν τῷ ἰδιωτικῷ βίῳ; οὕτως γὰρ ἄν σοι οἶμαι μάλιστα ἐγὼ δύνασθαι δηλοῦν τὰ διαφέροντα ἐν ἑκατέρῳ. οὕτω δὴ ὁ Σιμωνίδης εἶπεν· τοὺς μὲν δὴ ἰδιώτας ἔγωγε, ὦ Ἱέρων, δοκῶ μοι καταμεμαθηκέναι διὰ μὲν τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ὁράμασιν ἡδομένους τε καὶ ἀχθομένους, διὰ δὲ τῶν ὤτων ἀκούσμασι, διὰ δὲ τῶν ῥινῶν ὀσμαῖς, διὰ δὲ τοῦ στόματος σίτοις τε καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/#tlg0032-tlg008-local001-11"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0032.tlg008.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032/tlg008/local001.json.gz"}}