{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0613.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0613.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0613.tlg001.local001","title":"Περὶ ἑρμηνείας","titleGreek":"Περὶ ἑρμηνείας","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Demetrius of Phaleron","authorityName":null,"authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":null,"editors":["William Rhys Roberts"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Demetrius On Style","edition":null,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press","place":"Cambridge, UK","date":"1902","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":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/demetriusonstyle01deme/page/n87/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Demetrius Of Phaleron. Περὶ ἑρμηνείας. ed. William Rhys Roberts. Demetrius On Style, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1902. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0613.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ὥσπερ ἡ ποίησις διαιρεῖται τοῖς μέτροις, οἷον ἡμιμέτροις ἢ ἑξαμέτροις ἢ τοῖς ἄλλοις, οὕτω καὶ τὴν ἑρμηνείαν τὴν λογικὴν διαιρεῖ καὶ διακρίνει τὰ καλούμενα κῶλα, καθάπερ ἀναπαύοντα τὸν λέγοντά τε καὶ τὰ λεγόμενα αὐτά, καὶ ἐν πολλοῖς ὅροις ὁρίζοντα τὸν λόγον, ἐπεί τοι μακρὸς ἂν εἴη καὶ ἄπειρος καὶ ἀτεχνῶς πνίγων τὸν λέγοντα. Βούλεται μέντοι διάνοιαν ἀπαρτίζειν τὰ κῶλα ταῦτα, ποτὲ μὲν ὅλην διάνοιαν, οἷον ὡς Ἑκαταῖός φησιν ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ τῆς ἱστορίας, Ἑκαταῖος Μιλήσιος ὧδε μυθεῖται· συνείληπται γὰρ διάνοια τῷ κώλῳ ὅλῳ ὅλη, καὶ ἄμφω συγκαταλήγουσιν. ἐνίοτε μέντοι τὸ κῶλον ὅλην μὲν οὐ συμπεραιοῖ διάνοιαν, μέρος δὲ ὅλης ὅλον· ὡς γὰρ τῆς χειρὸς οὔσης ὅλου τινὸς μέρη αὐτῆς ὅλα ὅλης ἐστίν, οἷον δάκτυλοι καὶ πῆχυς· ἰδίαν γὰρ περιγραφὴν ἔχει τούτων τῶν μερῶν ἕκαστον, καὶ ἴδια μέρη· οὕτω καὶ διανοίας τινὸς ὅλης οὔσης μεγάλης ἐμπεριλαμβάνοιτ’ ἂν μέρη τινὰ αὐτῆς ὁλόκληρα ὄντα καὶ αὐτά. Ὥσπερ ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0613.tlg001.local001/#tlg0613-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0613.tlg001.local001/#tlg0613-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0613.tlg001.local001/#tlg0613-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0613.tlg001.local001/#tlg0613-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0613.tlg001.local001/#tlg0613-tlg001-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0613.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0613.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0613/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}