{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0545.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0545.tlg001.local001","title":"Περὶ ζῴων ἰδιότητος","titleGreek":"Περὶ ζῴων ἰδιότητος","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aelian","authorityName":"Claudius AELIANUS Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0545-claudius-aelianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0545-claudius-aelianus/","editors":["Rudolf Hercher","Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Claudii Aeliani De Natura Animalium Libri xvii","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1864","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","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044019057892&seq=70","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aelian. Περὶ ζῴων ἰδιότητος. ed. Rudolf Hercher, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Claudii Aeliani De Natura Animalium Libri xvii, Leipzig, Teubner, 1864. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0545.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"ἄνθρωπον μὲν εἶναι σοφὸν καὶ δίκαιον καὶ τῶν οἰκείων παίδων προμηθέστατον, καὶ τῶν γειναμένων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν προσήκουσαν φροντίδα, καὶ τροφὴν ἑαυτῷ μαστεύειν καὶ ἐπιβουλὰς φυλάττεσθαι καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ὅσα αὐτῷ σύνεστι δῶρα φύσεως, παράδοξον ἴσως οὐδέν· καὶ γὰρ λόγου μετείληχεν ἄνθρωπος τοῦ πάντων τιμιωτάτου, καὶ λογισμοῦ ἠξίωται, ὅσπερ οὖν ἐστι πολυαρκέστατός τε καὶ πολυωφελέστατος· ἀλλὰ καὶ θεοὺς αἰδεῖσθαι οἶδε καὶ σέβειν. τὸ δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἀλόγοις μετεῖναί τινος ἀρετῆς κατὰ φύσιν, καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πλεονεκτημάτων καὶ θαυμαστὰ ἔχειν συγκεκληρωμένα, τοῦτο ἤδη μέγα. καὶ εἰδέναι γε μὴ ῥᾳθύμως τὰ προσόντα αὐτῶν ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ, καὶ ὅπως ἐσπουδάσθη οὐ μεῖον τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων, εἴη ἄν τινος πεπαιδευμένης φρενὸς καὶ μαθούσης πολλά. ὡς μὲν οὖν καὶ ἑτέροις ὑπὲρ τούτων ἐσπούδασται, καλῶς οἶδα· ἐγὼ δὲ ἐμαυτῷ ταῦτα ὅσα οἷόν τε ἦν ἀθροίσας καὶ περιβαλὼν αὐτοῖς τὴν συνήθη λέξιν,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-8"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-9"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-10"},{"label":"Book 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-11"},{"label":"Book 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-12"},{"label":"Book 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-13"},{"label":"Book 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-14"},{"label":"Book 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-15"},{"label":"Book 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-16"},{"label":"Book 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/#tlg0545-tlg001-local001-17"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0545.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0545/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}