{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0284.tlg021.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg021.local001","title":"Παλινῳδία ἐπὶ Σμύρνῃ καὶ τῷ ταύτης ἀνοικισμῷ","titleGreek":"Παλινῳδία ἐπὶ Σμύρνῃ καὶ τῷ ταύτης ἀνοικισμῷ","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=445","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aelius Aristides. Παλινῳδία ἐπὶ Σμύρνῃ καὶ τῷ ταύτης ἀνοικισμῷ. ed. Wilhelm Dindorf. Aristides, Leipzig, Reimer, 1829. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg021.local001","excerpt":"ἐμοὶ δὲ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἕλληνες, συνέβη ταυτὸν ὅπερ τοῖς ἐν ταῖς τραγῳδίαις μέχρι πολλοῦ σιωπῶσιν, ἔπειτα καιροῦ παρασχόντος φθεγξαμένοις ἢ πρὸς χορὸν, ἢ πρὸς ὁντιναδήποτε. πάντα γὰρ τὸν ἄνω χρόνον κατασχὼν ἐμαυτὸν ἐξ οὗ ταῦθʼ ἃ σύνιστε ἐγένετο, καὶ οὔτε πρὸς παραμυθίαν τῶν πολιτῶν ὁρμήσας οὔτʼ ἄλλο πράξας οὐδὲν ἀλλʼ ἢ τοῖς προστάταις ὅσα καιρὸς ἦν ἐπιστείλας καὶ τἀκεῖθεν ἀποσκοπῶν, ἐπειδὴ καλῶς ποιοῦντες οἱ θεοὶ καὶ οἱ θεῶν γνώμῃ βασιλεῖς ἡμῖν αὐτοί τε κυβερνώμενοι καὶ τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἄγοντες πράγματα τὴν ἀλλοτρίαν τῆς πόλεως ἀπωσάμενοι τύχην τὴν χρηστὴν καὶ πάλαι προσήκουσαν ἀντεισήγαγον, οἶμαί τι κἂν αὐτὸς ἐν καιρῷ τυχεῖν εἰπών. εἰ μὲν οὖν ἐξῆν ἐμοὶ κινεῖσθαι ὅποι βούλομαι, παρὼν ἂν ὑμῖν διελεγόμην· κατέχοντος δὲ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡ διὰ τῶν γραμμάτων ὁμιλία κατελείπετο. καὶ τοῦτʼ εἰ μέν ἐστιν εἰς παράδειγμα ἀνενεγκεῖν, οὐ χρὴ θαυμάσαι· εἰ δʼ ἄλλῳ μὲν οὐδενί πω μέχρι τούτου πέπρακται, προσήκει…","divisions":[{"label":"Jebb Page 263","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001/#tlg0284-tlg021-local001-263"},{"label":"Jebb Page 264","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001/#tlg0284-tlg021-local001-264"},{"label":"Jebb Page 265","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001/#tlg0284-tlg021-local001-265"},{"label":"Jebb Page 266","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001/#tlg0284-tlg021-local001-266"},{"label":"Jebb Page 267","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001/#tlg0284-tlg021-local001-267"},{"label":"Jebb Page 268","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001/#tlg0284-tlg021-local001-268"},{"label":"Jebb Page 269","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001/#tlg0284-tlg021-local001-269"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0284.tlg021.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284/tlg021/local001.json.gz"}}