{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0284.tlg031.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg031.local001","title":"Ὑπὲρ τῆς πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους εἰρήνης","titleGreek":"Ὑπὲρ τῆς πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους εἰρήνης","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=607","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aelius Aristides. Ὑπὲρ τῆς πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους εἰρήνης. ed. Wilhelm Dindorf. Aristides, Leipzig, Reimer, 1829. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg031.local001","excerpt":"πρῶτον μὲν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, χάρις πολλὴ τοῖς θεοῖς, οἳ τοὺς μὲν πρότερον θρασυνομένους καὶ μηδʼ ὄνομα εἰρήνης ἐθέλοντας ἀνασχέσθαι, πολλάκις ἡμῶν προκαλουμένων αὐτοὺς, ὑπὲρ εἰρήνης δεῦρʼ ἥκειν παρεσκεύασαν ἐν τούτῳ τῷ σχήματι, τῇ πόλει δʼ ἀπέδωκαν ἐξ ἀρχῆς βουλεύσασθαι περὶ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ὅπως ἂν πείσησθε. ἄξιον δὲ χρήσασθαι τῷ καιρῷ καὶ τὴν μὲν τούτων ἀγνωμοσύνην καὶ φιλονεικίαν φυλάξασθαι, τοῖς δʼ ὑμετέροις αὐτῶν ἤθεσι καὶ τρόποις ἐμμεῖναι. ἔστι μὲν οὖν παλαιός τις λόγος ὡς ἄρα οὐ ῥᾴδιον εὖ πράττοντας εὖ φρονεῖν, ἀλλʼ οἱ πολλοὶ χείρους ὑπὸ τῆς τύχης γίγνονται· ἐγὼ δʼ ὅσοι μὲν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, παρʼ ἀξίαν ἢ παρʼ ἐλπίδας εὐτυχοῦσιν, τούτους μὲν εἰκός τι πάσχειν ὑπολαμβάνω μὴ δυναμένους χρῆσθαι μείζοσιν ἢ καθʼ αὑτοὺς πράγμασιν, ὅσοις δὲ πλεῖστα μὲν τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὑπάρχει κατωρθωκέναι, οὐκ ἐλάττω δὲ τούτων εὐβουλίας σύμβολα πᾶσι παρεσχῆσθαι, λόγος οὐ λείπεται ταυτὸν τοῖς πολλοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἀνοήτοις…","divisions":[{"label":"Jebb Page 391","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/#tlg0284-tlg031-local001-391"},{"label":"Jebb Page 392","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/#tlg0284-tlg031-local001-392"},{"label":"Jebb Page 393","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/#tlg0284-tlg031-local001-393"},{"label":"Jebb Page 394","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/#tlg0284-tlg031-local001-394"},{"label":"Jebb Page 395","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/#tlg0284-tlg031-local001-395"},{"label":"Jebb Page 396","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/#tlg0284-tlg031-local001-396"},{"label":"Jebb Page 397","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/#tlg0284-tlg031-local001-397"},{"label":"Jebb Page 398","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/#tlg0284-tlg031-local001-398"},{"label":"Jebb Page 399","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/#tlg0284-tlg031-local001-399"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0284.tlg031.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284/tlg031/local001.json.gz"}}