{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg008.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg008.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg008.local001","title":"De divinatione per somnum","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["Immanuel Bekker"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1837","volume":"3","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":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433022676005?urlappend=%3Bseq=320","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. De divinatione per somnum. ed. Immanuel Bekker. Aristotelis Opera, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1837. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg008.local001","excerpt":"Περὶ δὲ τῆς μαντικῆς τῆς ἐν τοῖς ὕπνοις γινομένης καὶ λεγομένης συμβαίνειν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνυπνίων, οὔτε καταφρονῆσαι ῥᾴδιον οὔτε πεισθῆναι. Τὸ μὲν γὰρ πάντας ἢ πολλοὺς ὑπολαμβάνειν ἔχειν τι σημειῶδες τὰ ἐνύπνια παρέχεται πίστιν ὡς ἐξ ἐμπειρίας λεγόμενον, καὶ τὸ περὶ ἐνίων εἶναι τὴν μαντικὴν ἐν τοῖς ἐνυπνίοις οὐκ ἄπιστον· ἔχει γάρ τινα λόγον, διὸ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἐνυπνίων ὁμοίως ἄν τις οἰηθείη. Τὸ δὲ μηδεμίαν αἰτίαν εὔλογον ὁρᾶν, καθ’ ἣν ἂν γίνοιτο, τοῦτο διαπιστεῖν ποιεῖ· τό τε γὰρ θεὸν εἶναι τὸν πέμποντα, πρὸς τῇ ἄλλῃ ἀλογίᾳ, καὶ τὸ μὴ τοῖς βελτίστοις καὶ φρονιμωτάτοις ἀλλὰ τοῖς τυχοῦσι πέμπειν ἄτοπον. Ἀφαιρεθείσης δὲ τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ αἰτίας οὐδεμία τῶν ἄλλων εὔλογος εἶναι φαίνεται αἰτία· τὸ γὰρ περὶ τῶν ἐφ’ Ἡρακλείαις στήλαις ἢ τῶν ἐν Βορυσθένει προορᾶν τινάς, ὑπὲρ τὴν ἡμετέραν εἶναι δόξειεν ἂν σύνεσιν εὑρεῖν τούτων τὴν ἀρχήν. Ἀνάγκη δ’ οὖν τὰ ἐνύπνια ἢ αἴτια εἶναι ἢ σημεῖα τῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΕΝΥΠΝΙΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΘ’ ΥΠΝΟΝ ΜΑΝΤΙΚΗΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg008.local001/1/"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg008.local001/2-chapter-2/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg008.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg008.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg008/local001.json.gz"}}