{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg015.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg015.local001","title":"Ἵππαρχος","titleGreek":"Ἵππαρχος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plato","authorityName":"PLATO Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","editors":["John Burnet"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Platonis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1910","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"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/operarecognovitb02platuoft/page/378/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Ἵππαρχος. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1910. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg015.local001","excerpt":"ΣΩ. τί γὰρ τὸ φιλοκερδές; τί ποτέ ἐστιν, καὶ τίνες οἱ φιλοκερδεῖς; ΕΤ. ἐμοὶ μὲν δοκοῦσιν οἳ ἂν κερδαίνειν ἀξιῶσιν ἀπὸ τῶν μηδενὸς ἀξίων. ΣΩ. πότερον οὖν σοι δοκοῦσιν γιγνώσκοντες ὅτι οὐδενός ἐστιν ἄξια, ἢ ἀγνοοῦντες; εἰ γὰρ ἀγνοοῦντες, ἀνοήτους λέγεις τοὺς φιλοκερδεῖς. ΕΤ. ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἀνοήτους λέγω, ἀλλὰ πανούργους καὶ πονηροὺς καὶ ἥττους τοῦ κέρδους, γιγνώσκοντας ὅτι οὐδενὸς ἄξιά ἐστιν ἀφʼ ὧν τολμῶσι κερδαίνειν, ὅμως τολμᾶν φιλοκερδεῖν διʼ ἀναισχυντίαν. ΣΩ. ἆρʼ οὖν τοιόνδε λέγεις τὸν φιλοκερδῆ, οἷον ἐὰν φυτεύων γεωργὸς ἀνὴρ καὶ γιγνώσκων ὅτι οὐδενὸς ἄξιον τὸ φυτόν, ἀξιοῖ ἀπὸ τούτου ἐκτραφέντος κερδαίνειν; ἆρα τοιοῦτον αὐτὸν λέγεις; ΕΤ. ἀπὸ παντὸς ὅ γε φιλοκερδής, ὦ Σώκρατες, οἴεται δεῖν κερδαίνειν. ΣΩ. μή μοι οὕτως εἰκῇ, ὥσπερ τι ἠδικημένος ὑπό τινος, ἀλλὰ προσέχων ἐμοὶ τὸν νοῦν ἀπόκριναι, ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ ἐξ ἀρχῆς πάλιν ἠρώτων· οὐχὶ ὁμολογεῖς τὸν φιλοκερδῆ ἐπιστήμονα εἶναι περὶ τῆς ἀξίας…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 225","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/#tlg0059-tlg015-local001-225"},{"label":"§ 226","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/#tlg0059-tlg015-local001-226"},{"label":"§ 227","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/#tlg0059-tlg015-local001-227"},{"label":"§ 228","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/#tlg0059-tlg015-local001-228"},{"label":"§ 229","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/#tlg0059-tlg015-local001-229"},{"label":"§ 230","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/#tlg0059-tlg015-local001-230"},{"label":"§ 231","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/#tlg0059-tlg015-local001-231"},{"label":"§ 232","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/#tlg0059-tlg015-local001-232"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg015.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg015/local001.json.gz"}}