{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg016.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg016.local001","title":"Ἐρασταί","titleGreek":"Ἐρασταί","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/388/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Ἐρασταί. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1910. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg016.local001","excerpt":"εἰς Διονυσίου τοῦ γραμματιστοῦ εἰσῆλθον, καὶ εἶδον αὐτόθι τῶν τε νέων τοὺς ἐπιεικεστάτους δοκοῦντας εἶναι τὴν ἰδέαν καὶ πατέρων εὐδοκίμων, καὶ τούτων ἐραστάς. ἐτυγχανέτην οὖν δύο τῶν μειρακίων ἐρίζοντε, περὶ ὅτου δέ, οὐ σφόδρα κατήκουον. ἐφαινέσθην μέντοι ἢ περὶ Ἀναξαγόρου ἢ περὶ Οἰνοπίδου ἐρίζειν· κύκλους γοῦν γράφειν ἐφαινέσθην καὶ ἐγκλίσεις τινὰς ἐμιμοῦντο τοῖν χεροῖν ἐπικλίνοντε καὶ μάλʼ ἐσπουδακότε. κἀγώ—καθήμην γὰρ παρὰ τὸν ἐραστὴν τοῦ ἑτέρου αὐτοῖν—κινήσας οὖν αὐτὸν τῷ ἀγκῶνι ἠρόμην ὅτι ποτὲ οὕτως ἐσπουδακότε τὼ μειρακίω εἴτην, καὶ εἶπον· ἦ που μέγα τι καὶ καλόν ἐστι περὶ ὃ τοσαύτην σπουδὴν πεποιημένω ἐστόν; ὁ δʼ εἶπε, ποῖον, ἔφη, μέγα καὶ καλόν; ἀδολεσχοῦσι μὲν οὖν οὗτοί γε περὶ τῶν μετεώρων καὶ φλυαροῦσι φιλοσοφοῦντες. καὶ ἐγὼ θαυμάσας αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀπόκρισιν εἶπον· ὦ νεανία, αἰσχρὸν δοκεῖ σοι εἶναι τὸ φιλοσοφεῖν; ἢ τί οὕτως χαλεπῶς λέγεις; καὶ ὁ ἕτερος—πλησίον γὰρ καθήμενος…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 132","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/#tlg0059-tlg016-local001-132"},{"label":"§ 133","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/#tlg0059-tlg016-local001-133"},{"label":"§ 134","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/#tlg0059-tlg016-local001-134"},{"label":"§ 135","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/#tlg0059-tlg016-local001-135"},{"label":"§ 136","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/#tlg0059-tlg016-local001-136"},{"label":"§ 137","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/#tlg0059-tlg016-local001-137"},{"label":"§ 138","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/#tlg0059-tlg016-local001-138"},{"label":"§ 139","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/#tlg0059-tlg016-local001-139"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg016.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg016/local001.json.gz"}}