{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0093.tlg007.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg007.local001","title":"De pietate","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"THEOPHRASTUS Phil.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0093-theophrastus/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"De pietate, ed. W. Pötscher, Theophrastos. Περὶ εὐσεβείας [Philosophia Antiqua 11. Leiden: Brill, 1964]: 146–184. Cod: 4,409: Phil.","citationShort":"De pietate, ed. W. Pötscher, Theophrastos. Περὶ εὐσεβείας [Philosophia Antiqua 11. Leiden: Brill, 1964]: 146–184."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"De pietate. De pietate, ed. W. Pötscher, Theophrastos. Περὶ εὐσεβείας [Philosophia Antiqua 11. Leiden: Brill, 1964]: 146–184.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg007.local001","excerpt":"τοῦ Νείλου κτισθεῖσαν χώραν κατοικοῦν ἤρξατο πρῶτον ἀφ' Ἑστίας τοῖς οὐρανίοις θεοῖς θύειν οὐ σμύρνης οὐδὲ κασίας καὶ λιβανωτοῦ κρόκῳ μιχθέν- των ἀπαρχάς· πολλαῖς γὰρ γενεαῖς ὕστερον παρελήφθη ταῦτα, καὶ πλάνης καὶ μαστὴρ ὁ ἄνθρωπος γιγνόμενος τῆς ἀναγκαίας ζωῆς μετὰ πολλῶν πόνων καὶ δακρύων σταγόνας τούτων ἀπήρξατ' ἂν τοῖς θεοῖς. οὐ τούτων οὖν ἔθυον πρότερον, ἀλλὰ χλόης, οἱονεί τινα τῆς γονίμου φύσεως χνοῦν ταῖς χερσὶν ἀράμενοι. δένδρα μὲν γὰρ δὴ πρὸ ζῴων ἀνέδωκεν ἡ γῆ, τῶν δένδρων δὲ πολὺ πρόσθεν τὴν ἐπέτειον γεννωμένην πόαν, ἧς δρεπόμενοι φύλλα καὶ ῥίζας καὶ τοὺς ὅλους τῆς φύσεως αὐτῶν βλαστοὺς κατέκαιον, ταύτῃ τοὺς φαινομένους οὐρανίους θεοὺς τῇ θυσίᾳ δεξιούμενοι καὶ τοῦ πυρὸς ἀπαθανα- τίζοντες αὐτοῖς τὰς τιμάς. τούτοις γὰρ καὶ τὸ πῦρ ἀθάνατον ἐφύλαττον ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς ὡς ὂν μάλιστα αὐτοῖς ὁμοιότατον. ἐκ δὲ τῆς θυμιάσεως τῶν ἀπὸ γῆς θυμιατήριά τε ἐκάλουν καὶ τὸ θύειν καὶ θυσίας· ἃ δὴ…","divisions":[{"label":"2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-2"},{"label":"3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-3"},{"label":"4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-4"},{"label":"5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-5"},{"label":"6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-6"},{"label":"7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-7"},{"label":"8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-8"},{"label":"9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-9"},{"label":"10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-10"},{"label":"11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-11"},{"label":"12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-12"},{"label":"13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-13"},{"label":"14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-14"},{"label":"15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-15"},{"label":"16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-16"},{"label":"17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-17"},{"label":"18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-18"},{"label":"19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-19"},{"label":"20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-20"},{"label":"Section 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/#tlg0093-tlg007-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0093.tlg007.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0093/tlg007/local001.json.gz"}}