{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0081.tlg006.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0081.tlg006.local002","title":"Περί της Δημοσθένους λέξεως","titleGreek":"Περί της Δημοσθένους λέξεως","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":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Dionysii Halicarnasei Opuscula","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1899","volume":"1","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":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/quaeexstant05dionuoft/page/126/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Dionysius Of Halicarnassus. Περί της Δημοσθένους λέξεως. ed. Hermann Usener, Ludwig Radermacher. Dionysii Halicarnasei Opuscula, Leipzig, Teubner, 1899. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0081.tlg006.local002","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· τί 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, θεράποντες μὲν τῶν ἀδίκως δυστυχούντων, κολασταὶ δὲ τῶν ἀδίκως εὐτυχούντων, αὐθάδεις πρὸς τὸ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-13"},{"label":"§ 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-14"},{"label":"§ 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-15"},{"label":"§ 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-16"},{"label":"§ 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-17"},{"label":"§ 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-18"},{"label":"§ 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-19"},{"label":"§ 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-21"},{"label":"§ 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-22"},{"label":"§ 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-23"},{"label":"§ 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-24"},{"label":"§ 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-25"},{"label":"§ 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-26"},{"label":"§ 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-27"},{"label":"§ 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-28"},{"label":"§ 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-29"},{"label":"§ 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-30"},{"label":"§ 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-31"},{"label":"§ 32","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-32"},{"label":"§ 33","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-33"},{"label":"§ 34","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-34"},{"label":"§ 35","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-35"},{"label":"§ 36","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-36"},{"label":"§ 37","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-37"},{"label":"§ 38","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-38"},{"label":"§ 39","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-39"},{"label":"§ 40","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-40"},{"label":"§ 41","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-41"},{"label":"§ 42","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-42"},{"label":"§ 43","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-43"},{"label":"§ 44","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-44"},{"label":"§ 45","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-45"},{"label":"§ 46","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-46"},{"label":"§ 47","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-47"},{"label":"§ 48","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-48"},{"label":"§ 49","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-49"},{"label":"§ 50","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-50"},{"label":"§ 51","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-51"},{"label":"§ 52","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-52"},{"label":"§ 53","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-53"},{"label":"§ 54","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-54"},{"label":"§ 55","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-55"},{"label":"§ 56","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-56"},{"label":"§ 57","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-57"},{"label":"§ 58","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/#tlg0081-tlg006-local002-58"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0081.tlg006.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0081/tlg006/local002.json.gz"}}
