{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg033.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg033.local001","title":"Μίνως","titleGreek":"Μίνως","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":"1915","volume":"5.1","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/p1platonisopera05platuoft/page/312/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Μίνως. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1915. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg033.local001","excerpt":"ΣΩ. ὁ νόμος ἡμῖν τί ἐστιν; ΕΤ. ὁποῖον καὶ ἐρωτᾷς τῶν νόμων; ΣΩ. τί δʼ; ἔστιν ὅτι διαφέρει νόμος νόμου κατʼ αὐτὸ τοῦτο, κατὰ τὸ νόμος εἶναι; σκόπει γὰρ δὴ ὃ τυγχάνω ἐρωτῶν σε. ἐρωτῶ γάρ, ὥσπερ εἰ ἀνηρόμην τί ἐστιν χρυσός, εἴ με ὡσαύτως ἀνήρου ὁποῖον καὶ λέγω χρυσόν, οἴομαί σε οὐκ ἂν ὀρθῶς ἐρέσθαι. οὐδὲν γάρ που διαφέρει οὔτε χρυσὸς χρυσοῦ οὔτε λίθος λίθου κατά γε τὸ λίθος εἶναι καὶ κατὰ τὸ χρυσός· οὕτω δὲ οὐδὲ νόμος που νόμου οὐδὲν διαφέρει, ἀλλὰ πάντες εἰσὶν ταὐτόν. νόμος γὰρ ἕκαστος αὐτῶν ἐστιν ὁμοίως, οὐχ ὁ μὲν μᾶλλον, ὁ δʼ ἧττον· τοῦτο δὴ αὐτὸ ἐρωτῶ, τὸ πᾶν τί ἐστιν νόμος. εἰ οὖν σοι πρόχειρον, εἰπέ. ΕΤ. τί οὖν ἄλλο νόμος εἴη ἄν, ὦ Σώκρατες, ἀλλʼ ἢ τὰ νομιζόμενα; ΣΩ. ἦ καὶ λόγος σοι δοκεῖ εἶναι τὰ λεγόμενα, ἢ ὄψις τὰ ὁρώμενα, ἢ ἀκοὴ τὰ ἀκουόμενα; ἢ ἄλλο μὲν λόγος, ἄλλο δὲ τὰ λεγόμενα· καὶ ἄλλο μὲν ὄψις, ἄλλο δὲ τὰ ὁρώμενα· καὶ ἄλλο μὲν ἀκοή, ἄλλο δὲ τὰ ἀκουόμενα, καὶ ἄλλο δὴ νόμος,…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 313","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/#tlg0059-tlg033-local001-313"},{"label":"§ 314","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/#tlg0059-tlg033-local001-314"},{"label":"§ 315","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/#tlg0059-tlg033-local001-315"},{"label":"§ 316","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/#tlg0059-tlg033-local001-316"},{"label":"§ 317","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/#tlg0059-tlg033-local001-317"},{"label":"§ 318","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/#tlg0059-tlg033-local001-318"},{"label":"§ 319","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/#tlg0059-tlg033-local001-319"},{"label":"§ 320","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/#tlg0059-tlg033-local001-320"},{"label":"§ 321","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/#tlg0059-tlg033-local001-321"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg033.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg033/local001.json.gz"}}