{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0537.tlg013.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0537.tlg013.local001","title":"Ratae Sententiae","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/51/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Epicurus. Ratae Sententiae. ed. Peter von der Mühll. Epicuri epistulae tres et ratae sententiae a Laertio Diogene Servatae, Leipzig, Teubner, 1922. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0537.tlg013.local001","excerpt":"Ι Τὸ μακάριον καὶ ἄφθαρτον οὔτε αὐτὸ πράγματα ἔχει οὔτε ἄλλῳ παρέχει, ὥστε οὔτε ὀργαῖς οὔτε χάρισι συνέχεται· ἐν ἀσθενεῖ γὰρ πᾶν τὸ τοιοῦτον. (ἐν ἄλλοις δέ φησι τοὺς θεοὺς λόγῳ θεωρητούς, οὓς μὲν κατ’ ἀριθμὸν ὑφεστῶτας, οὓς δὲ κατὰ ὁμοείδειαν ἐκ τῆς συνεχοῦς ἐπιρρύσεως τῶν ὁμοίων εἰδώλων ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἀποτετελεσμένων, ἀνθρωποειδεῖς.) ΙΙ Ὁ θάνατος οὐδὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς· τὸ γὰρ διαλυθὲν ἀναισθητεῖ· τὸ δ’ ἀναισθητοῦν οὐδὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς. ΙΙΙ Ὅρος τοῦ μεγέθους τῶν ἡδονῶν ἡ παντὸς τοῦ ἀλγοῦντος ὑπεξαίρεσις. ὅπου δ’ ἂν τὸ ἡδόμενον ἐνῇ, καθ’ ὃν ἂν χρόνον ᾖ, οὐκ ἔστι τὸ ἀλγοῦν ἢ λυπούμενον ἢ τὸ συναμφότερον.","divisions":[{"label":"§ 139","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/1-139/"},{"label":"§ 140","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/2-140/"},{"label":"§ 141","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/3-141/"},{"label":"§ 142","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/4-142/"},{"label":"§ 143","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/5-143/"},{"label":"§ 144","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/6-144/"},{"label":"§ 145","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/7-145/"},{"label":"§ 146","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/8-146/"},{"label":"§ 147","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/9-147/"},{"label":"§ 148","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/10-148/"},{"label":"§ 149","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/11-149/"},{"label":"§ 150","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/12-150/"},{"label":"§ 151","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/13-151/"},{"label":"§ 152","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/14-152/"},{"label":"§ 153","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/15-153/"},{"label":"§ 154","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/16-154/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0537.tlg013.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0537/tlg013/local001.json.gz"}}