{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0557.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0557.tlg001.local001","title":"Ἀρριανοῦ τῶν Ἐπικτήτου Διατριβῶν","titleGreek":"Ἀρριανοῦ τῶν Ἐπικτήτου Διατριβῶν","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Epictetus","authorityName":"EPICTETUS Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0557-epictetus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0557-epictetus/","editors":["Heinrich Schenkl"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Epicteti dissertationes ab Arriano digestae, editio maior","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1916","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":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Tufts University"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Gregory Crane","Lisa Cerrato","Anne Mahoney","David Mimno"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/ldpd_10922736_000/page/126","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Epictetus. Ἀρριανοῦ τῶν Ἐπικτήτου Διατριβῶν. ed. Heinrich Schenkl. Epicteti dissertationes ab Arriano digestae, editio maior, Leipzig, Teubner, 1916. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0557.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"οὔτε συνέγραψα ἐγὼ τοὺς Ἐπικτήτου λόγους οὕτως ὅπως ἄν τις συγγράψειε τὰ τοιαῦτα οὔτε ἐξήνεγκα εἰς ἀνθρώπους αὐτός, ὅς γε οὐδὲ συγγράψαι φημί. ὅσα δὲ ἤκουον αὐτοῦ λέγοντος, ταῦτα αὐτὰ ἐπειράθην αὐτοῖς ὀνόμασιν ὡς οἷόν τε ἦν γραψάμενος ὑπομνήματα εἰς ὕστερον ἐμαυτῷ διαφυλάξαι τῆς ἐκείνου διανοίας καὶ παρρησίας. ἔστι δὴ τοιαῦτα ὥσπερ εἰκὸς ὁποῖα ἄν τις αὐτόθεν ὁρμηθεὶς εἴποι πρὸς ἕτερον, οὐχ ὁποῖα ἂν ἐπὶ τῷ ὕστερον ἐντυγχάνειν τινὰς αὐτοῖς συγγράφοι. τοιαῦτα δʼ ὄντα οὐκ οἶδα ὅπως οὔτε ἑκόντος ἐμοῦ οὔτε εἰδότος ἐξέπεσεν εἰς ἀνθρώπους. ἀλλʼ ἐμοί γε οὐ πολὺς λόγος, εἰ οὐχ ἱκανὸς φανοῦμαι συγγράφειν, Ἐπικτήτῳ τε οὐδʼ ὀλίγος, εἰ καταφρονήσει τις αὐτοῦ τῶν λόγων, ἐπεὶ καὶ λέγων αὐτοὺς οὐδενὸς ἄλλου δῆλος ἦν ἐφιέμενος ὅτι μὴ κινῆσαι τὰς γνώμας τῶν ἀκουόντων πρὸς τὰ βέλτιστα. εἰ μὲν δὴ τοῦτό γε αὐτὸ διαπράττοιντο οἱ λόγοι οὗτοι, ἔχοιεν ἂν οἶμαι ὅπερ χρὴ ἔχειν τοὺς τῶν φιλοσόφων λόγους· εἰ δὲ μή,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 0","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg001.local001/#tlg0557-tlg001-local001-0"},{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg001.local001/#tlg0557-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg001.local001/#tlg0557-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg001.local001/#tlg0557-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg001.local001/#tlg0557-tlg001-local001-4"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0557.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0557/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}