{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0062.tlg058.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg058.local002","title":"Ὑπέρ τοῦ ἐν τῇ προσαγορεύσει πταισμάτως","titleGreek":"Ὑπέρ τοῦ ἐν τῇ προσαγορεύσει πταισμάτως","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/173/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Lucian Of Samosata. Ὑπέρ τοῦ ἐν τῇ προσαγορεύσει πταισμάτως. ed. Kenneth Kilburn. Lucian with an English Translation, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1959. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0062.tlg058.local002","excerpt":"Χαλεπὸν μὲν ἄνθρωπον ὄντα δαίμονός τινος ἐπήρειαν διαφυγεῖν, πολὺ δὲ χαλεπώτερον ἀπολογίαν εὑρεῖν παραλόγου καὶ δαιμονίου πταίσματος, ἅπερ ἀμφότερα νῦν ἐμοὶ συμβέβηκεν, ὃς ἀφικόμενος παρὰ σέ, ὡς προσείποιμι τὸ ἑωθινόν, δέον τὴν συνήθη ταύτην φωνὴν ἀφεῖναι καὶ χαίρειν κελεύειν, ἐγὼ δὲ ὁ χρυσοῦς ἐπιλαθόμενος ὑγιαίνειν σε ἠξίουν, εὔφημον μὲν καὶ τοῦτο, οὐκ ἐν καιρῷ δὲ ὡς οὐ κατὰ τὴν ἕω. ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ τούτῳ εὐθὺς ἴδιόν τε καὶ ἠρυθρίων καὶ παντοῖος ἦν ὑπὸ ἀπορίας, οἱ παρόντες δὲ οἱ μὲν παραπαίειν, ὡς τὸ εἰκός, οἱ δὲ ληρεῖν ὑφ' ἡλικίας, οἱ δὲ χθεσινῆς κραιπάλης ἀνάμεστον ἔτι ᾤοντό με εἶναι, εἰ καὶ ὅτι μάλιστα σὺ ἐπιεικῶς ἤνεγκας τὸ γεγονὸς οὐδ’ ὅσον ἄκρῳ τῷ μειδιάματι ἐπισημηνάμενος τῆς γλώττης τὴν διαμαρτίαν. ἔδοξεν οὖν μοι καλῶς ἔχειν παραμυθίαν τινὰ ἐμαυτῷ συγγράψαι, ὡς μὴ πάνυ ἀνιῴμην ἐπὶ τῷ πταίσματι μηδ’ ἀφόρητον ἡγοίμην, εἰ πρεσβύτης ἀνὴρ τοσοῦτον ἀπεσφάλην τοῦ καλῶς ἔχοντος ἐπὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/1-1/"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/2-2/"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/3-3/"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/4-4/"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/5-5/"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/6-6/"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/7-7/"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/8-8/"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/9-9/"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/10-10/"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/11-11/"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/12-12/"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/13-13/"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/14-14/"},{"label":"§ 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/15-15/"},{"label":"§ 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/16-16/"},{"label":"§ 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/17-17/"},{"label":"§ 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/18-18/"},{"label":"§ 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/19-19/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0062.tlg058.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0062/tlg058/local002.json.gz"}}