{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg056.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg056.local002","title":"Ἡρόδοτος ἢ Ἀετίων","titleGreek":"Ἡρόδοτος ἢ Ἀετίων","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Lucian of Samosata","authorityName":"LUCIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0062-lucianus/","editors":["Kenneth Kilburn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Lucian with an English Translation","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1959","volume":"6","series":null,"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"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Gregory Crane","Lisa Cerrato"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/luciankilb06luciuoft/page/143/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian Of Samosata. Ἡρόδοτος ἢ Ἀετίων. ed. Kenneth Kilburn. Lucian with an English Translation, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1959. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg056.local002","excerpt":"Ἡροδότου εἴθε μὲν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα μιμήσασθαι δυνατὸν ἦν. οὐ πάντα φημὶ ὅσα προσῆν αὐτῷ (μεῖζον γὰρ εὐχῆς τοῦτό γε) ἀλλὰ κἂν ἓν ἐκ τῶν ἁπάντων—οἷον ἢ κάλλος τῶν λόγων ἢ ἁρμονίαν αὐτῶν ἢ τὸ οἰκεῖον τῇ Ἰωνίᾳ καὶ προσφυὲς ἢ τῆς γνώμης τὸ περιττὸν ἢ ὅσα μυρία καλὰ ἐκεῖνος ἅμα πάντα συλλαβὼν ἔχει πέρα τῆς εἰς μίμησιν ἐλπίδος. ἃ δὲ ἐποίησεν ἐπὶ τοῖς συγγράμμασιν καὶ ὡς πολλοῦ ἄξιος τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἅπασιν ἐν βραχεῖ κατέστη, So Burmeister: ὡς πολλαχῶς τοῖς Ἕλ. . . . κατέστη Γ-1: γνώριμος in marg. after βραχεῖ Γ-2: ὡς πολλαχῶς τοῖς Ἕλ. ἐν βραχεῖ κατέστη Ν. καὶ ἐγὼ καὶ σὺ καὶ ἄλλος ἂν μιμησαίμεθα. Πλεύσας γὰρ οἴκοθεν ἐκ τῆς Καρίας εὐθὺ τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἐσκοπεῖτο πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ὅπως ἂν τάχιστα καὶ ἀπραγμονέστατα ἐπίσημος καὶ περιβόητος γένοιτο καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ τὰ συγγραμμάτια. τὸ μὲν οὖν περινοστοῦντα νῦν μὲν Ἀθηναίοις, νῦν δὲ Κορινθίοις ἀναγινώσκειν ἢ Ἀργείοις ἢ Λακεδαιμονίοις ἐν τῷ μέρει, ἐργῶδες καὶ μακρὸν…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/3-3/"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/4-4/"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/5-5/"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/6-6/"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/7-7/"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/8-8/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg056.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg056/local002.json.gz"}}