{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg035.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg035.local001","title":"Ἐπινομίς","titleGreek":"Ἐπινομίς","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":"5.2","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/p2operarecognovitb05platuoft/page/n158/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Ἐπινομίς. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1915. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg035.local001","excerpt":"ΚΛ. πρὸς μὲν τὸ τῆς ὁμολογίας ἥκομεν ἅπαντες ὀρθῶς, ὦ ξένε, τρεῖς ὄντες, ἐγὼ καὶ σὺ καὶ Μέγιλλος ὅδε, τὸ τῆς φρονήσεως ἐπισκεψόμενοι τίνι ποτὲ χρὴ λόγῳ διεξελθεῖν, ὃ τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην ἕξιν φαμέν, ὅταν διανοηθῇ, κάλλιστʼ ἔχειν ποιεῖν πρὸς φρόνησιν ὅσην δυνατὸν ἀνθρώπῳ σχεῖν. τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλα, ὥς φαμεν, ἅπαντα διεξήλθομεν ὅσα ἦν περὶ νόμων θέσιν· ὃ δὲ μέγιστον εὑρεῖν τε καὶ εἰπεῖν, τί ποτε μαθὼν θνητὸς ἄνθρωπος σοφὸς ἂν εἴη, τοῦτο οὔτε εἴπομεν οὔτε ηὕρομεν, νῦν τε πειρώμεθα τοῦτο μὴ καταλιπεῖν· σχεδὸν γὰρ ἀτελὲς ἂν πράξαιμεν οὗ χάριν ἅπαντες ὡρμήσαμεν, ὡς φανερὰ ποιήσοντες ἐξ ἀρχῆς μέχρι τέλους. ΑΘ. ὦ φίλε Κλεινία, καλῶς μὲν λέγεις, ἄτοπον μὴν ἀκούσεσθαί σε λόγον οἶμαι, καί τινα τρόπον οὐκ ἄτοπον αὖ. πολλοὶ γὰρ δὴ προστυχεῖς τῷ βίῳ γιγνόμενοι τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον φέρουσιν, ὡς οὐκ ἔσται μακάριον τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένος οὐδʼ εὔδαιμον. ἕπου δὴ καὶ σύνιδε ἄν σοι δοκῶ κἀγὼ μετʼ αὐτῶν καλῶς τοῦ τοιούτου…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 973","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-973"},{"label":"§ 974","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-974"},{"label":"§ 975","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-975"},{"label":"§ 976","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-976"},{"label":"§ 977","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-977"},{"label":"§ 978","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-978"},{"label":"§ 979","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-979"},{"label":"§ 980","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-980"},{"label":"§ 981","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-981"},{"label":"§ 982","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-982"},{"label":"§ 983","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-983"},{"label":"§ 984","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-984"},{"label":"§ 985","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-985"},{"label":"§ 986","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-986"},{"label":"§ 987","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-987"},{"label":"§ 988","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-988"},{"label":"§ 989","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-989"},{"label":"§ 990","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-990"},{"label":"§ 991","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-991"},{"label":"§ 992","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/#tlg0059-tlg035-local001-992"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg035.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg035/local001.json.gz"}}