{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0537.tlg012.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0537.tlg012.local001","title":"Epistula Tertia ad Menoeceum","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Epicurus","authorityName":"EPICURUS Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0537-epicurus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0537-epicurus/","editors":["Peter von der Mühll"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Epicuri epistulae tres et ratae sententiae a Laertio Diogene Servatae","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1922","volume":null,"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":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digial editor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/epicuriepistulae00epicuoft/page/44/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Epicurus. Epistula Tertia ad Menoeceum. ed. Peter von der Mühll. Epicuri epistulae tres et ratae sententiae a Laertio Diogene Servatae, Leipzig, Teubner, 1922. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0537.tlg012.local001","excerpt":"Μήτε νέος τις ὢν μελλέτω φιλοσοφεῖν, μήτε γέρων ὑπάρχων κοπιάτω φιλοσοφῶν. οὔτε γὰρ ἄωρος οὐδείς ἐστιν οὔτε πάρωρος πρὸς τὸ κατὰ ψυχὴν ὑγιαῖνον. ὁ δὲ λέγων ἢ μήπω τοῦ φιλοσοφεῖν ὑπάρχειν ὥραν ἢ παρεληλυθέναι τὴν ὥραν ὅμοιός ἐστι τῷ λέγοντι πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν ἢ μὴ παρεῖναι τὴν ὥραν ἢ μηκέτι εἶναι. ὥστε φιλοσοφητέον καὶ νέῳ καὶ γέροντι, τῷ μὲν ὅπως γηράσκων νεάζῃ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς διὰ τὴν χάριν τῶν γεγονότων, τῷ δὲ ὅπως νέος ἅμα καὶ παλαιὸς ᾖ διὰ τὴν ἀφοβίαν τῶν μελλόντων· μελετᾶν οὖν χρὴ τὰ ποιοῦντα τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν, εἴπερ παρούσης μὲν αὐτῆς πάντα ἔχομεν, ἀπούσης δὲ πάντα πράττομεν εἰς τὸ ταύτην ἔχειν.","divisions":[{"label":"§ 122","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/1-122/"},{"label":"§ 123","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/2-123/"},{"label":"§ 124","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/3-124/"},{"label":"§ 125","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/4-125/"},{"label":"§ 126","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/5-126/"},{"label":"§ 127","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/6-127/"},{"label":"§ 128","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/7-128/"},{"label":"§ 129","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/8-129/"},{"label":"§ 130","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/9-130/"},{"label":"§ 131","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/10-131/"},{"label":"§ 132","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/11-132/"},{"label":"§ 133","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/12-133/"},{"label":"§ 134","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/13-134/"},{"label":"§ 135","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/14-135/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0537.tlg012.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537/tlg012/local001.json.gz"}}