{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg031.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg031.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg031.local001","title":"Φιλοψευδὴς ἢ Ἀπιστῶν","titleGreek":"Φιλοψευδὴς ἢ Ἀπιστῶν","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":"1921","volume":"3","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/lucianhar03luciuoft/page/320/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian. Φιλοψευδὴς ἢ Ἀπιστῶν. ed. Austin Morris Harmon. Lucian, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1921. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg031.local001","excerpt":"Τυχιάδης ἔχεις μοι, ὦ Φιλόκλεις, εἰπεῖν τί ποτε ἄρα ἐστὶν ὃ πολλοὺςτί ποτε ἄρα τοῦτό ἐστιν ὃ τοὺς πολλοὺς γ. εἰς ἐπιθυμίαν τοῦψεύδεσθαι γ, ψεύδους προάγεται, ὡς αὐτούς τε χαίρειν μηδὲν ὑγιὲς λέγοντας καὶ τοῖς τὰ τοιαῦτα διεξιοῦσιν μάλιστα προσέχειν τὸν νοῦν; τί ποτε ἄρα τοῦτό ἐστιν ὃ τοὺς πολλοὺς γ. ψεύδεσθαι γ, Φιλοκλῆς πολλά, ὦ Τυχιάδη, ἐστὶν ἃ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐνίους ἀναγκάζει τὰ ψευδῆ λέγειν εἰς τὸ χρήσιμον ἀποβλέποντας. Τυχιάδης οὐδὲν πρὸς ἔπος ταῦτα, φασίν, οὐ γὰρ περὶ τούτων ἠρόμην ὁπόσοι τῆς χρείας ἕνεκα ψεύδονται· συγγνωστοὶ γὰρ οὗτοί γε, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ ἐπαίνου τινὲς αὐτῶν ἄξιοι, ὁπόσοι ἢ πολεμίους ἐξηπάτησαν ἢ ἐπὶ σωτηρίᾳ τῷ τοιούτῳ φαρμάκῳ ἐχρήσαντο ἐν τοῖς δεινοῖς, οἷα πολλὰ καὶ ὁ Ὀδυσσεὺς ἐποίει τήν τε αὑτοῦ ψυχὴν ἀρνύμενος καὶ τὸν νόστον τῶν ἑταίρων. ἀλλὰ περὶ ἐκείνων, ὦ ἄριστε, φημὶ οἳ αὐτὸ ἄνευ τῆς χρείας τὸ ψεῦδος πρὸ πολλοῦ τῆς ἀληθείας τίθενται, ἡδόμενοι τῷ πράγματι καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg031.local001/#tlg0062-tlg031-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg031.local001/#tlg0062-tlg031-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg031.local001/#tlg0062-tlg031-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg031.local001/#tlg0062-tlg031-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 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