{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0032.tlg012.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg012.local001","title":"Ἱππαρχικός","titleGreek":"Ἱππαρχικός","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/116/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Xenophon. Ἱππαρχικός. ed. Edgar Carew Marchant. Opera Omnia, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg012.local001","excerpt":"πρῶτον μὲν θύοντα χρὴ αἰτεῖσθαι θεοὺς ταῦτα διδόναι καὶ νοεῖν καὶ λέγειν καὶ πράττειν, ἀφʼ ὧν θεοῖς μὲν κεχαρισμενώτατα ἄρξαις ἄν, σαυτῷ δὲ καὶ φίλοις καὶ τῇ πόλει προσφιλέστατα καὶ εὐκλεέστατα καὶ πολυωφελέστατα. θεῶν δὲ ἵλεων ὄντων ἀναβιβαστέον μέν σοι ἱππέας, καὶ ὅπως ἀναπληρῶται ὁ κατὰ τὸν νόμον ἀριθμὸς καὶ ὅπως τὸ ὂν ἱππικὸν μὴ μειῶται. εἰ δὲ μὴ προσαναβήσονται ἱππεῖς, μείονες ἀεὶ ἔσονται. ἀνάγκη γὰρ τοὺς μὲν γήρᾳ ἀπαγορεύειν, τοὺς δὲ καὶ ἄλλως ἐκλείπειν. πληρουμένου γε μὴν τοῦ ἱππικοῦ ἐπιμελητέον μὲν ὅπως τρέφωνται οἱ ἵπποι ὡς ἂν δύνωνται πόνους ὑποφέρειν· οἱ γὰρ ἥττους τῶν πόνων οὔτε αἱρεῖν οὔτε ἀποφεύγειν δύναιντʼ ἄν. ἐπιμελητέον δὲ ὅπως εὔχρηστοι ὦσιν· οἱ γὰρ αὖ ἀπειθεῖς τοῖς πολεμίοις μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖς φίλοις συμμαχοῦσι. καὶ οἱ λακτίζοντες δὲ ἀναβεβαμένοι ἵπποι ἐκποδὼν ποιητέοι· οἱ γὰρ τοιοῦτοι πολλάκις πλείω κακὰ ἢ οἱ πολέμιοι ποιοῦσι. δεῖ δὲ καὶ τῶν ποδῶν ἐπιμελεῖσθαι, ὅπως…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/#tlg0032-tlg012-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/#tlg0032-tlg012-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/#tlg0032-tlg012-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/#tlg0032-tlg012-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/#tlg0032-tlg012-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/#tlg0032-tlg012-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/#tlg0032-tlg012-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/#tlg0032-tlg012-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/#tlg0032-tlg012-local001-9"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0032.tlg012.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032/tlg012/local001.json.gz"}}