{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0640.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0640.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0640.tlg001.local001","title":"Epistulae","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Alciphron","authorityName":"ALCIPHRON Rhet. et Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0640-alciphron/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0640-alciphron/","editors":["M. A. Schepers"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Alciphronis Rhetoris Epistularum Libri IV","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1905","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":["Harvard College Library"],"funders":[],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Librarian for Hellenic Studies and Coordinator for the Classics Collection Development","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"http://www.archive.org/details/alciphronisrheto00alciuoft","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Alciphron. Epistulae. ed. M. A. Schepers. Alciphronis Rhetoris Epistularum Libri IV, Leipzig, Teubner, 1905. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0640.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Χρηστὴν ἡμῖν ἡ θάλαττα τὸ τήμερον εἶναι τὴν γαλήνην ἐστόρεσεν. ὡς γὰρ τρίτην ταύτην εἶχεν ὁ χειμὼν ἡμέραν, καὶ λάβρως κατὰ τοῦ πελάγους ἐπέπνεον ἐκ τῶν ἀκρωτηρίων οἱ βορεῖς, καὶ ἐπεφρίκει μὲν ὁ πόντος μελαινόμενος, τοῦ ὕδατος δὲ ἀφρὸς εξηνθήκει, πανταχοῦ τῆς θαλάσσης ἐπʼ ἀλλήλων ἐπικλωμένων τῶν κυμάτων — τὰ μὲν γὰρ ταῖς πέτρταις προσηράσσετο, τὰ δὲ εἴσω ἀνοιδοῦντα ἐρρήγνυτο —, ἀεργία παντελὴς ἦν· καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ ταῖς ᾐόσι καταλαβόντες καλύβια, ὀλίγα ξυλισάμενοι κομμάτια ὅσα οἱ ναυπηγοὶ πρῴην ἐκ τῶν δρυῶν ἃς ἐξέτεμον ἀπέλιπον, ἐκ τούτων πῦρ ἀνάψαν- x (Harl. Ven.) Neap.b N x1 (Γ Vat. 1) x² (Vat. 2 Flor. ΠΔ) 2 χρηστὴν] χρηστή γε Reisk., at Eunt. ad II. XI p. 828,1 cfrt Bergl. | εἶναι] om. Neap.b | 3—4 ὡς γὰρ — ἡμέραν] om. Neap.b, del. εἶχεν ὁ χειμὼν et καὶ Nauck, del. ταύτην Meis. | 5 βορεῖς] βορέαι Valck., βορραῖ Mein. | 7 ἐπʼ ἀλλήλων] ἐπαλ- λήλων x | 9 εἴσω] εἰς οὐρανὸν Reisk., ἔξω Mein. |…","divisions":[{"label":"LIBER I. ΑΛΚΙΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΡΗΤΟΡΟΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ ΑΛΙΕΥΤΙΚΑΙ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0640.tlg001.local001/#tlg0640-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"LIBER II. ΑΛΚΙΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΡΗΤΟΡΟΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ ΑΓΡΟΙΚΙΚΑΙ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0640.tlg001.local001/#tlg0640-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"LIBER ΙΙΙ. ΑΛΚΙΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΡΗΤΟΡΟΣ. ΕΠΙΣΤΟΔΑΙ ΠΑΡΑΣΙΤΩΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0640.tlg001.local001/#tlg0640-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"LIBER IV. 〈ΑΛΚΙΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΡΗΤΟΡΟΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ ΕΤΑΙΡΙΚΑΙ.〉","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0640.tlg001.local001/#tlg0640-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"APPENDIX.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0640.tlg001.local001/#tlg0640-tlg001-local001-5"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0640.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0640.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0640/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}