{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0284.tlg056.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg056.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg056.local001","title":"Περὶ πολιτικοῦ λόγου","titleGreek":"Περὶ πολιτικοῦ λόγου","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":["Leonhard von Spengel"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Rhetores Graeci","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1854","volume":"2","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=mdp.39015014683174&view=2up&seq=490","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aelius Aristides. Περὶ πολιτικοῦ λόγου. ed. Leonhard von Spengel. Rhetores Graeci, Leipzig, Teubner, 1854. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg056.local001","excerpt":"τάδε σοι περὶ τῶν ἰδεῶν καὶ ἀρετῶν ἐξ ὧν συνίσταται ὁ πολιτικὸς λόγος, καὶ διʼ ὧν δοκιμάζεται, καὶ πολλοῦ ἄξιος προάγεται, ὥσπερ ἐκ μερῶν καθʼ ἕκαστον συντιθέμενος, πανταχόθεν ὁλόκληρος καὶ τελείως ἔχων αὐτὸς ἐν ἑαυτῷ, αἵτινες τοιαίδε καὶ τοσαίδε εἰσί, σεμνότης, βαρύτης, περιβολή, ἀξιοπιστία, σφοδρότης, ἔμφασις, δεινότης, ἐπιμέλεια, γλυκύτης, σαφήνεια καὶ καθαρότης, βραχύτης καὶ συντομία, κόλασις. ἡ μὲν οὖν σεμνότης καθολικῶς συνίσταται τριχῇ, κατὰ γνώμην κατὰ σχῆμα καὶ κατὰ ἀπαγγελίαν. γνώμην δὲ λέγω τὸν νοῦν καὶ τὰ ἐπινοήματα, ἐν οἷς εὑρίσκεται τὰ πράγματα, σχήματα δὲ τὸν τύπον τοῦ λόγου, ἐν ᾧ ἐκφερόμενα τὰ νοήματα ἤτοι τοιόνδε ἢ τοιόνδε τὸν λόγον φαίνεσθαι ποιεῖ. καὶ ταῦτα τὰ πλείστην δύναμιν ἔχοντα ἐν τῷ λόγῳ καὶ ὅσην τὰ ἔμψυχα καὶ κινούμενα παρὰ τὰ ἐναντίως ἔχοντα. ἀπαγγελίαν δὲ λέγω αὐτὴν τὴν λέξιν διʼ ἧς ἀπαγγέλλεται τὰ ἐπινοήματα. κατὰ δʼ οὖν γνώμην σεμνὸς ἔσται σοι λόγος ἐκ…","divisions":[{"label":"Περὶ πολιτικοῦ λόγου","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg056.local001/#tlg0284-tlg056-local001-1"},{"label":"περὶ ἀφελοῦς λόγου.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg056.local001/#tlg0284-tlg056-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284.tlg056.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0284.tlg056.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0284/tlg056/local001.json.gz"}}