{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg020.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg020.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg020.local001","title":"De longitudine et brevitate vitae","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":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","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://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433022676005?urlappend=%3Bseq=326","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. De longitudine et brevitate vitae. ed. Immanuel Bekker. Aristotelis Opera, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1837. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg020.local001","excerpt":"Περὶ δὲ τοῦ τὰ μὲν εἶναι μακρόβια τῶν ζῴων τὰ δὲ βραχύβια, καὶ περὶ ζωῆς ὅλως μήκους καὶ βραχύτητος ἐπισκεπτέον τὰς αἰτίας. Ἀρχὴ δὲ τῆς σκέψεως ἀναγκαία πρῶτον ἐκ τοῦ διαπορῆσαι περὶ αὐτῶν. Οὐ γάρ ἐστι δῆλον πότερον ἕτερον ἢ τὸ αὐτὸ αἴτιον πᾶσι τοῖς ζῴοις καὶ φυτοῖς τοῦ τὰ μὲν εἶναι μακρόβια τὰ δὲ βραχύβια· καὶ γὰρ τῶν φυτῶν· τὰ μὲν ἐπέτειον τὰ δὲ πολυχρόνιον ἔχει τὴν ζωήν. Ἔτι δὲ πότερον ταὐτὰ μακρόβια καὶ τὴν φύσιν ὑγιεινὰ τῶν φύσει συνεστώτων, ἢ κεχώρισται καὶ τὸ βραχύβιον καὶ τὸ νοσῶδες, ἢ κατ’ ἐνίας μὲν νόσους ἐπαλλάττει τὰ νοσώδη τὴν φύσιν σώματα τοῖς βραχυβίοις, κατ’ ἐνίας δ’ οὐδὲν κωλύει νοσώδεις εἶναι μακροβίους ὄντας. Περὶ μὲν οὖν ὕπνου καὶ ἐγρηγόρσεως εἴρηται πρότερον, περὶ δὲ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου λεκτέον ὕστερον, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ περὶ νόσου καὶ ὑγιείας, ὅσον ἐπιβάλλει τῇ φυσικῇ φιλοσοφίᾳ· νῦν δὲ περὶ τῆς αἰτίας τοῦ τὰ μὲν εἶναι μακρόβια τὰ δὲ βραχύβια, καθάπερ εἴρηται πρότερον,…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΜΑΚΡΟΒΙΟΤΗΤΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΡΑΧΥΒΙΟΤΗΤΟΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg020.local001/#tlg0086-tlg020-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg020.local001/#tlg0086-tlg020-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg020.local001/#tlg0086-tlg020-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg020.local001/#tlg0086-tlg020-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg020.local001/#tlg0086-tlg020-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg020.local001/#tlg0086-tlg020-local001-6"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg020.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg020.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg020/local001.json.gz"}}