{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0527.tlg026.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527.tlg026.local002","title":"Μακκαβαίων Δ΄","titleGreek":"Μακκαβαίων Δ΄","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Septuaginta","authorityName":"SEPTUAGINTA","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0527-septuaginta/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0527-septuaginta/","editors":["Henry Barclay Swete D.D."],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"The Old Testament in Greek","edition":null,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press","place":"Cambridge","date":"1905","volume":"3","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":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":[],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig) 2015 - 2017","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/theoldtestamenti03swetuoft/page/n751/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Septuaginta. Μακκαβαίων Δ΄. ed. Henry Barclay Swete D.D.. The Old Testament in Greek, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1905. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527.tlg026.local002","excerpt":"ΦIΔΟΣOΦΩΤΑΤΟΝ λόγον ἐπιδείκνυσθαι μέλλων, εἰ αὐτοδέσποτός A ἐστιν τῶν παθῶν ὁ εὐσεβὴς λογισμός, συμβουλεύσαιμʼ ἂν ὑμῖν ὀρθῶς ὅπως προθύμως προσέχητε τῇ φιλοσοφίᾳ. καὶ γὰρ ἀναγκαῖος εἰς ἐπιστήμην παντὶ ὁ λόγος, καὶ ἄλλως τῆς μεγίστης ἀρετῆς, λέγω δὴ φρονήσεως, περιέχει ἔπαινον. εἰ ἄρα τῶν σωφροσύνης κωλυτικῶν παθῶν ὁ λογισμὸς φαίνεται ἐπικρατεῖν, γαστριμαργίας τε καὶ ἐπιθυμίας· ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἐμποδιστικῶν παθῶν κυριεύειν ἀναφαίνεται, οἶον κακοηθείας, καὶ τῶν τῆς ἀνδρίας ἐμποδιστικῶν παθῶν, θυμοῦ τε καὶ πόνου καὶ φόβου. πῶς οὖν, ἴσως εἵποιεν ἄν τινες, εἰ τῶν παθῶν ὁ λογισμὸς κρατεῖ, λήθης καὶ ἀγνοίας οὐ δεσπόζει; γελοῖον ἐπιχειροῦντες λέγειν· οὐ γὰρ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ παθῶν ὁ λογισμὸς κρατεῖ, ἀλλὰ τῶν τῆς δικαιοσύνης καὶ ἀνδρείας καὶ σωφροσύνης καὶ φρονήσεως ἐναντίων· καὶ τούτων, οὐχ ὥστε αὐτὰ καταλῦσαι, ἀλλ᾿ ὥστε αὐτοῖς μὴ εἶξαι. Πολλαχόθεν μὲν οὗν καὶ ἀλλαχόθεν ἔχοιμʼ ἂν ὑμῖν…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/#tlg0527-tlg026-local002-18"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0527.tlg026.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0527/tlg026/local002.json.gz"}}