{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0081.tlg006.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0081.tlg006.local001","title":"De Demosthenis dictione","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Dionysius of Halicarnassus","authorityName":"DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0081-dionysius-halicarnassensis/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0081-dionysius-halicarnassensis/","editors":["Hermann Usener","Ludwig Radermacher"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Dionysii Halicarnasei Opscula","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1899","volume":"1","series":"Dionysii Halicarnasei Quae Exstant","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":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/quaeexstant05dionuoft/page/124/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Dionysius Of Halicarnassus. De Demosthenis dictione. ed. Hermann Usener, Ludwig Radermacher. Dionysii Halicarnasei Opscula, Leipzig, Teubner, 1899. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0081.tlg006.local001","excerpt":"δικανικοῖς μὲν οὖν οὐ περιέτυχον αὐτοῦ λόγοις, δημηγορικοῖς δὲ ὀλίγοις καί τισι καὶ τέχναις, τοῖς δὲ πλείοσιν ἐπιδεικτικοῖς. τῆς δὲ ἰδέας αὐτοῦ τῶν λόγων τοιοῦτος ὁ χαρακτήρ, ἐγκωμιάζει δὲ τοὺς ἐν πολέμοις ἀριστεύσαντας Ἀθηναίων· γὰρ ἀπῆν τοῖς ἀνδράσι τούτοις, ὧν δεῖ ἀνδράσι προσεῖναι; τί δὲ προσῆν, ὧν δεῖ ἀπεῖναι; εἰπεῖν δυναίμην, ἃ βούλομαι, βουλοίμην δέ, ἃ δεῖ, λαθὼν μὲν τὴν θείαν νέμεσιν, φυγὼν δὲ τὸν ἀνθρώπινον φθόνον. οὗτοι γὰρ ἐκέκτηντο ἔνθεον μὲν τὴν ἀρετήν, ἀνθρώπινον δὲ τὸ θνητόν, πολλὰ μὲν δὴ τὸ παρὸν ἐπιεικὲς τοῦ αὐθάδους δικαίου προκρίνοντες, πολλὰ δὲ νόμου ἀκριβείας λόγων ὀρθότητα, τοῦτον νομίζοντες θειότατον καὶ κοινότατον νόμων τὸ δέον ἐν τῷ δέοντι καὶ λέγειν καὶ σιγᾶν καὶ ποιεῖν, καὶ δισσὰ ἀσκήσαντες μάλιστα ὧν δεῖ, γνώμην καὶ ῥώμην, τὴν μὲν βουλεύοντες τὴν δʼ ἀποτελοῦντες, 1 totius libelli argumentum breuissime comprehendit ano- nymus W VII 1049 cf VII 93, 6 et 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