{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0284.tlg018.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg018.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg018.local001","title":"Εἰς τὸ φρέαρ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ","titleGreek":"Εἰς τὸ φρέαρ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aelius Aristides","authorityName":"Aelius ARISTIDES Rhet.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0284-aelius-aristides/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0284-aelius-aristides/","editors":["Wilhelm Dindorf"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Aristides","edition":null,"publisher":"Reimer","place":"Leipzig","date":"1829","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://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4287026&view=2up&seq=425","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aelius Aristides. Εἰς τὸ φρέαρ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ. ed. Wilhelm Dindorf. Aristides, Leipzig, Reimer, 1829. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg018.local001","excerpt":"τί δʼ ἂν εἴποις τὸ φρέαρ τὸ ἱερόν; ἢ δῆλον ὅτι τὴν τοῦ λόγου μέμφει φύσιν ὡς οὐχ ἱκανῶς ἐπὶ πάντα ἀφικνουμένην οὐδʼ ἐνδείξασθαι δυναμένην ἐνίοτε ἀρκούντως τὸ ὄν; τοῦτο γοῦν οὐδʼ ἂν εἷς λόγος ὁποῖόν τι τὸ κάλλος καὶ τὴν ἡδονήν ἐστιν ἐνδείξαιτο, ἀλλʼ ἀμείνους ἐσμὲν πίνειν τούτου τοῦ ὕδατος καὶ λούεσθαι καὶ προσορᾶν ἡδέως ἢ ἔχειν εἰπεῖν τι περὶ αὐτοῦ, ὥσπερ οἱ τῶν καλῶν ἐρῶντες, οἳ τῇ μὲν δυνάμει τοῦ κάλλους ἑαλώκασι καὶ ἴσασιν οἵων ἐρῶσιν, ἐὰν δέ τις αὐτοὺς ἔρηται, οὐκ ἂν ἔχοιεν εἰπεῖν περὶ ἀπόντων, παρόντας δὲ οἶμαι δείξαιεν ἄν. τὸ δʼ αὐτὸ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ φρέατος πεπόνθαμεν, καὶ ἐσμὲν ἐρασταὶ μὲν αὐτοῦ πάμπολλοι, μᾶλλον δὲ πάντες σχεδὸν, ὁποίου δὲ ὄντος οὐκ ἔχομεν εἰπεῖν. ἀλλʼ ἐάν τινα ἡμῶν ἀπολαβών τις ἐρωτᾷ, παραλαβόντες ἂν αὐτὸν ἄγειν ἀξιοίημεν ἐπʼ αὐτὸ καὶ δεικνύοιμεν. τῷ δὲ οὐδὲ τοῦτο ἀποχρήσει, γευσάμενος δὲ καὶ πειραθεὶς τοῦ παρʼ Ὁμήρῳ λωτοῦ γεγεῦσθαι δόξει, μένειν ἐθέλων καὶ χαλεπῶς…","divisions":[{"label":"Jebb Page 252","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg018.local001/#tlg0284-tlg018-local001-252"},{"label":"Jebb Page 253","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg018.local001/#tlg0284-tlg018-local001-253"},{"label":"Jebb Page 254","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg018.local001/#tlg0284-tlg018-local001-254"},{"label":"Jebb Page 255","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg018.local001/#tlg0284-tlg018-local001-255"},{"label":"Jebb Page 256","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg018.local001/#tlg0284-tlg018-local001-256"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg018.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0284.tlg018.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284/tlg018/local001.json.gz"}}