{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg026.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg026.local001","title":"Ἱππίας ἐλάττων","titleGreek":"Ἱππίας ἐλάττων","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/565/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Ἱππίας ἐλάττων. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg026.local001","excerpt":"ΕΥ. σὺ δὲ δὴ τί σιγᾷς, ὦ Σώκρατες, Ἱππίου τοσαῦτα ἐπιδειξαμένου, καὶ οὐχὶ ἢ συνεπαινεῖς τι τῶν εἰρημένων ἢ καὶ ἐλέγχεις, εἴ τί σοι μὴ καλῶς δοκεῖ εἰρηκέναι; ἄλλως τε ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτοὶ λελείμμεθα, οἳ μάλιστʼ ἂν ἀντιποιησαίμεθα μετεῖναι ἡμῖν τῆς ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ διατριβῆς. ΣΩ. καὶ μήν, ὦ Εὔδικε, ἔστι γε ἃ ἡδέως ἂν πυθοίμην Ἱππίου ὧν νυνδὴ ἔλεγεν περὶ Ὁμήρου. καὶ γὰρ τοῦ σοῦ πατρὸς Ἀπημάντου ἤκουον ὅτι ἡ Ἰλιὰς κάλλιον εἴη ποίημα τῷ Ὁμήρῳ ἢ ἡ Ὀδύσσεια, τοσούτῳ δὲ κάλλιον, ὅσῳ ἀμείνων Ἀχιλλεὺς Ὀδυσσέως εἴη· ἑκάτερον γὰρ τούτων τὸ μὲν εἰς Ὀδυσσέα ἔφη πεποιῆσθαι, τὸ δʼ εἰς Ἀχιλλέα. περὶ ἐκείνου οὖν ἡδέως ἄν, εἰ βουλομένῳ ἐστὶν Ἱππίᾳ, ἀναπυθοίμην ὅπως αὐτῷ δοκεῖ περὶ τοῖν ἀνδροῖν τούτοιν, πότερον ἀμείνω φησὶν εἶναι, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ παντοδαπὰ ἡμῖν ἐπιδέδεικται καὶ περὶ ποιητῶν τε ἄλλων καὶ περὶ Ὁμήρου. ΕΥ. ἀλλὰ δῆλον ὅτι οὐ φθονήσει Ἱππίας, ἐάν τι αὐτὸν ἐρωτᾷς, ἀποκρίνεσθαι. ἦ γάρ, ὦ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 363","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-363"},{"label":"§ 364","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-364"},{"label":"§ 365","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-365"},{"label":"§ 366","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-366"},{"label":"§ 367","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-367"},{"label":"§ 368","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-368"},{"label":"§ 369","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-369"},{"label":"§ 370","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-370"},{"label":"§ 371","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-371"},{"label":"§ 372","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-372"},{"label":"§ 373","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-373"},{"label":"§ 374","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-374"},{"label":"§ 375","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-375"},{"label":"§ 376","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/#tlg0059-tlg026-local001-376"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg026.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg026/local001.json.gz"}}