{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg036.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg036.local001","title":"Ἐπιστολαί","titleGreek":"Ἐπιστολαί","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/n183/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Ἐπιστολαί. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1915. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg036.local001","excerpt":"Πλάτων Διονυσίῳ εὖ πράττειν.διατρίψας ἐγὼ παρʼ ὑμῖν χρόνον τοσοῦτον καὶ διοικῶν τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀρχὴν πεπιστευμένος πάντων μάλιστα, τὰς ὠφελίας ὑμῶν λαμβανόντων, τὰς διαβολὰς δυσχερεῖς οὔσας ὑπέμενον· ᾔδη γὰρ ὅτι τῶν ὠμοτέρων οὐδὲν ἐμοῦ συνεθέλοντος ὑμῖν δόξει πεπρᾶχθαι· πάντες γὰρ οἱ συμπολιτευόμενοι μεθʼ ὑμῶν ὑπάρχουσί μοι μάρτυρες, ὧν ἐγὼ πολλοῖς συνηγωνισάμην, ἀπολύσας αὐτοὺς οὐ σμικρᾶς ζημίας. αὐτοκράτωρ δὲ πολλάκις τὴν ὑμετέραν πόλιν διαφυλάξας, ἀπεπέμφθην ἀτιμότερον ἢ πτωχὸν ὑμῶν ἀποστελλόντων προσήκει καὶ κελευόντων ἐκπλεῦσαι, τοσοῦτον παρʼ ὑμῖν διατρίψαντα χρόνον. ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ βουλεύσομαι τὸ λοιπὸν τρόπον ἀπανθρωπότερον, σὺ δὲ τοιοῦτος ὢν τύραννος οἰκήσεις μόνος. τὸ δὲ χρυσίον τὸ λαμπρόν, ὅπερ ἔδωκας εἰς ἀποστολήν, ἄγει σοι Βακχεῖος ὁ τὴν ἐπιστολὴν φέρων· οὔτε γὰρ ἐφόδιον ἐκεῖνό γʼ ἦν ἱκανὸν οὔτε πρὸς τὸν ἄλλον βίον συμφέρον, ἀδοξίαν δὲ πλείστην τῷ διδόντι σοὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Letter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-1"},{"label":"Letter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-2"},{"label":"Letter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-3"},{"label":"Letter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-4"},{"label":"Letter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-5"},{"label":"Letter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-6"},{"label":"Letter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-7"},{"label":"Letter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-8"},{"label":"Letter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-9"},{"label":"Letter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-10"},{"label":"Letter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-11"},{"label":"Letter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-12"},{"label":"Letter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/#tlg0059-tlg036-local001-13"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg036.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg036/local001.json.gz"}}