{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg025.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg025.local001","title":"Ἱππίας μείζων","titleGreek":"Ἱππίας μείζων","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/526/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Ἱππίας μείζων. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg025.local001","excerpt":"ΣΩ. Ἱππίας ὁ καλός τε καὶ σοφός· ὡς διὰ χρόνου ἡμῖν κατῆρας εἰς τὰς Ἀθήνας. ΙΠ. οὐ γὰρ σχολή, ὦ Σώκρατες. ἡ γὰρ Ἦλις ὅταν τι δέηται διαπράξασθαι πρός τινα τῶν πόλεων, ἀεὶ ἐπὶ πρῶτον ἐμὲ ἔρχεται τῶν πολιτῶν αἱρουμένη πρεσβευτήν, ἡγουμένη δικαστὴν καὶ ἄγγελον ἱκανώτατον εἶναι τῶν λόγων οἳ ἂν παρὰ τῶν πόλεων ἑκάστων λέγωνται. πολλάκις μὲν οὖν καὶ εἰς ἄλλας πόλεις ἐπρέσβευσα, πλεῖστα δὲ καὶ περὶ πλείστων καὶ μεγίστων εἰς τὴν Λακεδαίμονα· διὸ δή, ὃ σὺ ἐρωτᾷς, οὐ θαμίζω εἰς τούσδε τοὺς τόπους. ΣΩ. τοιοῦτον μέντοι, ὦ Ἱππία, ἔστι τὸ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ σοφόν τε καὶ τέλειον ἄνδρα εἶναι. σὺ γὰρ καὶ ἰδίᾳ ἱκανὸς εἶ παρὰ τῶν νέων πολλὰ χρήματα λαμβάνων ἔτι πλείω ὠφελεῖν ὧν λαμβάνεις, καὶ αὖ δημοσίᾳ τὴν σαυτοῦ πόλιν ἱκανὸς εὐεργετεῖν, ὥσπερ χρὴ τὸν μέλλοντα μὴ καταφρονήσεσθαι ἀλλʼ εὐδοκιμήσειν ἐν τοῖς πολλοῖς. ἀτάρ, ὦ Ἱππία, τί ποτε τὸ αἴτιον ὅτι οἱ παλαιοὶ ἐκεῖνοι, ὧν ὀνόματα μεγάλα λέγεται ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ,…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 281","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-281"},{"label":"§ 282","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-282"},{"label":"§ 283","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-283"},{"label":"§ 284","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-284"},{"label":"§ 285","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-285"},{"label":"§ 286","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-286"},{"label":"§ 287","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-287"},{"label":"§ 288","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-288"},{"label":"§ 289","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-289"},{"label":"§ 290","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-290"},{"label":"§ 291","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-291"},{"label":"§ 292","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-292"},{"label":"§ 293","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-293"},{"label":"§ 294","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-294"},{"label":"§ 295","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-295"},{"label":"§ 296","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-296"},{"label":"§ 297","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-297"},{"label":"§ 298","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-298"},{"label":"§ 299","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-299"},{"label":"§ 300","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-300"},{"label":"§ 301","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-301"},{"label":"§ 302","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-302"},{"label":"§ 303","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-303"},{"label":"§ 304","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/#tlg0059-tlg025-local001-304"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg025.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg025/local001.json.gz"}}