{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg017.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg017.local001","title":"Θεάγης","titleGreek":"Θεάγης","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":"1903","volume":"3","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/operarecognovitb03platuoft/page/120/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Θεάγης. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg017.local001","excerpt":"ΔΗ. ὦ Σώκρατες, ἐδεόμην ἄττα σοι ἰδιολογήσασθαι, εἰ σχολή· κἂν εἰ ἀσχολία δὲ μὴ πάνυ τις μεγάλη, ὅμως ἐμοῦ ἕνεκα ποίησαι σχολήν. ΣΩ. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄλλως τυγχάνω σχολάζων, καὶ δὴ σοῦ γε ἕνεκα καὶ πάνυ. ἀλλʼ εἴ τι βούλει λέγειν, ἔξεστιν. ΔΗ. βούλει οὖν δεῦρο εἰς τὴν τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ ἐλευθερίου στοὰν ἐκποδὼν ἀποχωρήσωμεν; ΣΩ. εἰ σοὶ δοκεῖ. ΔΗ. ἴωμεν δή. ὦ Σώκρατες, πάντα τὰ φυτὰ κινδυνεύει τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ἔχειν, καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῆς γῆς φυόμενα καὶ τὰ ζῷα τά τε ἄλλα καὶ ἅνθρωπος. καὶ γὰρ ἐν τοῖς φυτοῖς ῥᾷστον ἡμῖν τοῦτο γίγνεται, ὅσοι τὴν γῆν γεωργοῦμεν, τὸ παρασκευάσασθαι πάντα τὰ πρὸ τοῦ φυτεύειν καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ φυτεῦσαι· ἐπειδὰν δὲ τὸ φυτευθὲν βιῷ, μετὰ τοῦτο θεραπεία τοῦ φύντος καὶ πολλὴ καὶ χαλεπὴ καὶ δύσκολος γίγνεται. οὕτω δὲ ἔχειν ἔοικε καὶ τὸ περὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ἀπὸ τῶν ἐμαυτοῦ ἐγὼ πραγμάτων τεκμαίρομαι καὶ ἐς τἆλλα. καὶ γὰρ ἐμοὶ ἡ τοῦ ὑέος τουτουΐ, εἴτε φυτείαν εἴτε παιδοποιίαν δεῖ αὐτὴν ὀνομάζειν,…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 121","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-121"},{"label":"§ 122","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-122"},{"label":"§ 123","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-123"},{"label":"§ 124","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-124"},{"label":"§ 125","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-125"},{"label":"§ 126","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-126"},{"label":"§ 127","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-127"},{"label":"§ 128","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-128"},{"label":"§ 129","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-129"},{"label":"§ 130","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-130"},{"label":"§ 131","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/#tlg0059-tlg017-local001-131"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg017.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg017/local001.json.gz"}}