{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg013.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg013.local001","title":"Περὶ τοῦ μὴ ῥᾳδίως πιστεύειν Διαβολῇ","titleGreek":"Περὶ τοῦ μὴ ῥᾳδίως πιστεύειν Διαβολῇ","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Lucian","authorityName":"LUCIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","editors":["Austin Morris Harmon"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Lucian","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1913","volume":"1","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities","Harvard Library Arcadia Fund","Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Gregory Crane","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/lucianha01luciuoft/page/360/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian. Περὶ τοῦ μὴ ῥᾳδίως πιστεύειν Διαβολῇ. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Lucian, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg013.local001","excerpt":"δεινόν γε ἡ ἄγνοια καὶ πολλῶν κακῶν ἀνθρώποις αἰτία, ὥσπερ ἀχλύν τινα καταχέουσα τῶν πραγμάτων καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἀμαυροῦσα καὶ τὸν ἑκάστου βίον ἐπηλυγάζουσα. ἐν σκότῳ γοῦν πλανωμένοις πάντες ἐοίκαμεν, μᾶλλον δὲ τυφλοῖς ὅμοια πεπόνθαμεν, τῷ μὲν προσπταίοντες ἀλόγως, τὸ δὲ ὑπερβαίνοντες, οὐδὲν δέον, καὶ τὸ μὲν πλησίον καὶ παρὰ πόδας οὐχ ὁρῶντες, τὸ δὲ πόρρω καὶ πάμπολυ διεστηκὸς ὡς ἐνοχλοῦν δεδιότες· καὶ ὅλως ἐφʼ ἑκάστου τῶν πραττομένων οὐ διαλείπομεν τὰ πολλὰ ὀλισθαίνοντες. τοιγάρτοι μυρίας ἤδη τοῖς τραγῳδοδιδασκάλοις ἀφορμὰς εἰς τὰ δράματα τὸ τοιοῦτο παρέσχηται, τοὺς Λαβδακίδας καὶ τοὺς Πελοπίδας καὶ τὰ τούτοις παραπλήσια· σχεδὸν γὰρ τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ ἀναβαινόντων κακῶν εὕροι τις ἂν ὑπὸ τῆς ἀγνοίας καθάπερ ὑπὸ τραγικοῦ τινος δαίμονος κεχορηγημένα. Λέγω δὲ καὶ ἐς τὰ ἄλλα μὲν ἀποβλέπων, μάλιστα δὲ ἐς τὰς οὐκ ἀληθεῖς κατὰ τῶν συνήθων καὶ φίλων διαβολάς, ὑφʼ ὧν ἤδη καὶ οἶκοι…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-13"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-14"},{"label":"§ 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-15"},{"label":"§ 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-16"},{"label":"§ 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-17"},{"label":"§ 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-18"},{"label":"§ 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-19"},{"label":"§ 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-20"},{"label":"§ 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-21"},{"label":"§ 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-22"},{"label":"§ 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-23"},{"label":"§ 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-24"},{"label":"§ 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-25"},{"label":"§ 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-26"},{"label":"§ 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-27"},{"label":"§ 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-28"},{"label":"§ 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-29"},{"label":"§ 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-30"},{"label":"§ 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-31"},{"label":"§ 32","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/#tlg0062-tlg013-local001-32"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg013.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg013/local001.json.gz"}}