{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0658.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0658.tlg001.local001","title":"Aethiopica","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Heliodorus of Emesa","authorityName":"HELIODORUS Scr. Erot.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0658-heliodorus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0658-heliodorus/","editors":["Immanuel Bekker"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Heliodori Aethiopicorum libri decem","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1855","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":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"http://www.archive.org/details/aethiopicorumlib00heliuoft","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Heliodorus Of Emesa. Aethiopica. ed. Immanuel Bekker. Heliodori Aethiopicorum libri decem, Leipzig, Teubner, 1855. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0658.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ἡμέρας ἄρτι διαγελώσης καὶ ἡλίου τὰς ἀκρωρείας καταυγάζοντος ἄνδρες ἐν ὅπλοις λῃστρικοῖς ὄρους ὑπερκύψαντες, ὃ δὴ κατ̓ ἐκβολὰς τοῦ Νείλου καὶ στόμα τὸ καλούμενον Ἡρακλεωτικὸν, ὑπερτείνει, μικρὸν ἐπιστάντες τὴν ὑποκειμένην θάλατταν ὀφθαλμοῖς ἐπήρχοντο, καὶ τῷ πελάγει τὰς ὄψεις τὸ πρῶτον ἐπαφέντες, ὡς οὐδὲν ἄγρας λῃστρικῆς ἐπηγγέλλετο μὴ πλεόμενον, ἐπὶ τὸν πλησίον αἰγιαλὸν τῇ θέᾳ κατήγοντο. καὶ ἦν τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ τοιάδε. ὁλκὰς ἀπὸ πρυμνησίων ὥρμει, τῶν, μὲν ἐμπλεόντων χηρεύουσα φόρτου δὲ πλήθουσα. καὶ τοῦτο παρῆν συμβάλλειν καὶ τοῖς πόρρωθεν: τὸ γὰρ ἄχθος ἄχρι καὶ ἐπὶ τρίτον ζωστῆρα τῆς νεὼς τὸ ὕδωρ ἀνέθλιβεν. ὁ δὲ αἰγιαλός, μεστὰ πάντα σωμάτων νεοσφαγῶν, τῶν μὲν ἄρδην ἀπολωλότων τῶν δὲ ἡμιθνήτων καὶ μέρεσι τῶν σωμάτων ἔτι σπαιρόντων, ἄρτι πεπαῦσθαι τὸν πόλεμον κατηγορούντων. ἦν δὲ οὐ πολέμου καθαροῦ τὰ φαινόμενα σύμβολα, ἀλλ̓ ἀναμέμικτο καὶ εὐωχίας οὐκ εὐτυχοῦς ἀλλ̓ εἰς τοῦτο ληξάσης ἐλεεινὰ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-8"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-9"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/#tlg0658-tlg001-local001-10"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0658.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0658/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}