{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0551.tlg009.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0551.tlg009.local001","title":"Λιβυκή","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Appian of Alexandria","authorityName":"APPIANUS Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0551-appianus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0551-appianus/","editors":["Ludwig Mendelssohn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Appiani Historia Romana","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1879","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":[],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Anne Mahoney","David Mimno"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxjtm3?urlappend=%3Bseq=227","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Appian Of Alexandria. Λιβυκή. ed. Ludwig Mendelssohn. Appiani Historia Romana, Leipzig, Teubner, 1879. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0551.tlg009.local001","excerpt":"Καρχηδόνα τὴν ἐν Λιβύῃ Φοίνικες ᾤκισαν ἔτεσι πεντήκοντα πρὸ ἁλώσεως Ἰλίου, οἰκισταὶ δʼ αὐτῆς ἐγένοντο Ζῶρός τε καὶ Καρχηδών, ὡς δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι καὶ αὐτοὶ Καρχηδόνιοι νομίζουσι, Διδὼ γυνὴ Τυρία, ἧς τὸν ἄνδρα κατακαίνει Πυγμαλίων Τύρου τυραννεύων, καὶ τὸ ἔργον ἐπέκρυπτεν. ἡ δὲ ἐξ ἐνυπνίου τὸν φόνον ἐπέγνω, καὶ μετὰ χρημάτων πολλῶν καὶ ἀνδρῶν, ὅσοι Πυγμαλίωνος τυραννίδα ἔφευγον, ἀφικνεῖται πλέουσα Λιβύης ἔνθα νῦν ἔστι Καρχηδών. ἐξωθούμενοι δʼ ὑπὸ τῶν Λιβύων ἐδέοντο χωρίον ἐς συνοικισμὸν λαβεῖν, ὅσον ἂν βύρσα ταύρου περιλάβοι. τοῖς δὲ ἐνέπιπτε μέν τι καὶ γέλωτος ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν Φοινίκων μικρολογίᾳ, καὶ ᾐδοῦντο ἀντειπεῖν περὶ οὕτω βραχυτάτου· μάλιστα δʼ ἠπόρουν ὅπως ἂν πόλις ἐν τηλικούτῳ διαστήματι γένοιτο, καὶ ποθοῦντες ἰδεῖν ὅ τι ἔστιν αὐτοῖς τοῦτο τὸ σοφόν, συνέθεντο δώσειν καὶ ἐπώμοσαν. οἱ δὲ τὸ δέρμα περιτεμόντες ἐς ἱμάντα ἕνα στενώτατον, περιέθηκαν ἔνθα νῦν ἔστιν ἡ Καρχηδονίων ἀκρόπολις· καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/#tlg0551-tlg009-local001-20"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0551.tlg009.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0551/tlg009/local001.json.gz"}}