{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0043.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0043.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0043.tlg001.local001","title":"Epistulae","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":null,"authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":null,"editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Epistulae, ed. R. Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci, Paris: Didot, 1873 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1965): 100. Q: 194: Epist. Cf. et HERODOTUS Hist. (0016 002) Historiae 3.40–43.","citationShort":"Epistulae, ed. R. Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci, Paris: Didot, 1873 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1965): 100."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"Epistulae. Epistulae, ed. R. Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci, Paris: Didot, 1873 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1965): 100.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0043.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ἄμασις Πολυκράτει ὧδε λέγει. Ἡδὺ μὲν πυνθάνεσθαι ἄνδρα φίλον καὶ ξεῖνον εὖ πρήσσοντα, ἐμοὶ δὲ αἱ σαὶ μεγάλαι εὐτυχίαι οὐχ ἀρέσκουσι ἐπισταμένῳ τὸ θεῖον ὡς ἔστι φθονερόν· καί κως βού- λομαι καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ τῶν ἂν κήδωμαι τὸ μέν τι εὐτυ- χέειν τῶν πρηγμάτων, τὸ δὲ προσπταίειν, καὶ οὕτω διαφέρειν τὸν αἰῶνα ἐναλλὰξ πρήσσων, ἢ εὐτυχέειν τὰ πάντα. οὐδένα γάρ κω λόγῳ οἶδα ἀκούσας ὅστις ἐς τέλος οὐ κακῶς ἐτελεύτησε πρόρριζος, εὐτυχέων τὰ πάντα. σὺ ὦν νῦν ἐμοὶ πειθόμενος ποίησον πρὸς τὰς εὐτυχίας τοιάδε· φροντίσας τὸ ἂν εὕρῃς ἐόν τοι πλεί- στου ἄξιον, καὶ ἐπ' ᾧ σὺ ἀπολομένῳ μάλιστα τὴν ψυ- χὴν ἀλγήσεις, τοῦτο ἀπόβαλε οὕτω ὅκως μηκέτι ἥξει ἐς ἀνθρώπους. ἤν τε μὴ ἐναλλὰξ ἤδη τὠπὸ τούτου αἱ εὐτυχίαι τοι τῇσι πάθῃσι προσπίπτωσι, τρόπῳ τῷ ἐξ ἐμεῦ ὑποκειμένῳ ἀκέο.","divisions":[{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0043.tlg001.local001/#tlg0043-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0043.tlg001.local001/#tlg0043-tlg001-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0043.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0043.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0043/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}