{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0553.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0553.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0553.tlg001.local001","title":"Onirocriticon","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Artemidorus","authorityName":"ARTEMIDORUS Onir.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0553-artemidorus-onir/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0553-artemidorus-onir/","editors":["Roger A Pack"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Artemidori Daldiani Onirocriticon","edition":null,"publisher":"Leipzig","place":"Teubner","date":"1963","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":"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":"http://digital.slub-dresden.de/id403855756","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Artemidorus. Onirocriticon. ed. Roger A Pack. Artemidori Daldiani Onirocriticon, Teubner, Leipzig, 1963. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0553.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Πολλάκις προετράπην ἐπὶ τὴν πραγματείαν τὴν προκειμένην προοίμιον ὁρμῆσαι καὶ ἐπεσχέθην ‘οὔτʼ ὄκνῳ εἴκων οὔτ’ ἀφραδίῃσι νόοιοʼ, ὥς φησιν ὁ ποιητής, ἀλλὰ τὸ μεγαλεῖον τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ θεωρημάτων καὶ τὸ πλῆθος καταπεπληγὼς μάλιστα καὶ τὰς ἀντιλογίας δεδιὼς τῶν ἀνθρώπων τῶν ἤτοι διὰ τὸ πεπεῖσθαι οὐκ εἶναι μαντικὴν οὐδὲ θεῶν πρόνοιαν λεγόντων ὅσα λέγουσιν ἢ ἄλλως γυμνάσματα καὶ διατριβὰς ἑαυτοῖς ποριζομένων. νυνὶ δὲ ἡ παροῦσα χρεία ἀναγκαία οὖσα διὰ τὴν εὐχρηστίαν οὐ μόνον τὴν ἡμῶν αὐτῶν ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν μετέπειτα ἐσομένων ἀνθρώπων προετρέψατό με μὴ διαμέλλειν μηδὲ ἀναβάλλεσθαι, ἀλλὰ περὶ ὧν ἄν ἔχω κατάληψιν, ἣν διὰ πείρας ἐπορισάμην, συγγράψαι. ἡγοῦμαι δʼ ἀμφότερά μοι ἐκ τοῦ τοιούτου περιέσεσθαι, πρός τε τοὺς ἀναιρεῖν ἐπιχειροῦντας μαντικήν τε αὐτὴν καὶ τὰ εἴδη αὐτῆς ἀνεπιφθόνως τε ἅμα καὶ μετὰ κατασκευῆς οὐ τῆς τυχούσης ἀντιτάξεσθαι φέρων εἰς τὸ μέσον τὴν πεῖραν καὶ τὴν τῶν ἀποτελεσμάτων…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0553.tlg001.local001/#tlg0553-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0553.tlg001.local001/#tlg0553-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0553.tlg001.local001/#tlg0553-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0553.tlg001.local001/#tlg0553-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0553.tlg001.local001/#tlg0553-tlg001-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0553.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0553.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0553/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}