{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0032.tlg013.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg013.local001","title":"Περὶ ἱππικῆς","titleGreek":"Περὶ ἱππικῆς","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. Περὶ ἱππικῆς. ed. Edgar Carew Marchant. Opera Omnia, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg013.local001","excerpt":"ἐπειδὴ διὰ τὸ συμβῆναι ἡμῖν πολὺν χρόνον ἱππεύειν οἰόμεθα ἔμπειροι ἱππικῆς γεγενῆσθαι, βουλόμεθα καὶ τοῖς νεωτέροις τῶν φίλων δηλῶσαι ᾗ ἂν νομίζομεν αὐτοὺς ὀρθότατα ἵπποις προσφέρεσθαι. συνέγραψε μὲν οὖν καὶ Σίμων περὶ ἱππικῆς, ὃς καὶ τὸν κατὰ τὸ Ἐλευσίνιον Ἀθήνησιν ἵππον χαλκοῦν ἀνέθηκε καὶ ἐν τῷ βάθρῳ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ ἔργα ἐξετύπωσεν· ἡμεῖς γε μέντοι ὅσοις συνετύχομεν ταὐτὰ γνόντες ἐκείνῳ, οὐκ ἐξαλείφομεν ἐκ τῶν ἡμετέρων, ἀλλὰ πολὺ ἥδιον παραδώσομεν αὐτὰ τοῖς φίλοις, νομίζοντες ἀξιοπιστότερα εἶναι ὅτι κἀκεῖνος κατὰ ταὐτὰ ἡμῖν ἔγνω ἱππικὸς ὤν· καὶ ὅσα δὴ παρέλιπεν ἡμεῖς πειρασόμεθα δηλῶσαι. πρῶτον δὲ γράψομεν ὡς ἄν τις ἥκιστα ἐξαπατῷτο ἐν ἱππωνίᾳ. τοῦ μὲν τοίνυν ἔτι ἀδαμάστου πώλου δῆλον ὅτι τὸ σῶμα δεῖ δοκιμάζειν· τῆς γὰρ ψυχῆς οὐ πάνυ σαφῆ τεκμήρια παρέχεται ὁ μήπω ἀναβαινόμενος. τοῦ γε μὴν σώματος πρῶτόν φαμεν χρῆναι τοὺς πόδας σκοπεῖν. ὥσπερ γὰρ οἰκίας οὐδὲν ὄφελος ἂν εἴη, εἰ τὰ ἄνω πάνυ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/#tlg0032-tlg013-local001-12"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0032.tlg013.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032/tlg013/local001.json.gz"}}