{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1147.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1147.tlg002.local001","title":"Testimonia","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"ANTIPHON Soph.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1147-antiphon/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Testimonia, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, vol. 2, 6th edn., Berlin: Weidmann, 1952: 334–337. NQ: 1,252: Test. test. 1–9.","citationShort":"Testimonia, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, vol. 2, 6th edn., Berlin: Weidmann, 1952: 334–337."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://maximus.tlg.uci.edu/canon.php","sourceLinkType":"catalogue","sourceRights":null,"citation":"Testimonia. Testimonia, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, vol. 2, 6th edn., Berlin: Weidmann, 1952: 334–337.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1147.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"ἥδιον ποιεῖ ζῆν. εἰ οὖν ὥσπερ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἔργων οἱ διδάσκαλοι τοὺς μαθητὰς μιμητὰς ἑαυτῶν ἀποδεικνύουσιν, οὕτω καὶ σὺ τοὺς συνόντας διαθήσεις, νόμιζε κακοδαιμονίας διδάσκαλος εἶναι. καὶ ὁ Σωκράτης πρὸς ταῦτα εἶπε· (4) Δοκεῖς μοι, ὦ Ἀντιφῶν, ὑπειληφέναι με οὕτως ἀνιαρῶς ζῆν, ὥστε πέπεισμαι σὲ μᾶλλον ἀποθανεῖν ἂν ἑλέσθαι ἢ ζῆν ὥσπερ ἐγώ. ἴθι οὖν ἐπισκεψώμεθα τί χαλεπὸν ἤισθησαι τοὐμοῦ βίου. (5) πότερον ὅτι τοῖς μὲν λαμβάνουσιν ἀργύριον ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν ἀπεργάζεσθαι τοῦτο ἐφ' ὧι ἂν μισθὸν λάβωσιν, ἐμοὶ δὲ μὴ λαμβάνοντι οὐκ ἀνάγκη διαλέγεσθαι ὧι ἂν μὴ βούλωμαι; ἢ τὴν δίαιτάν μου φαυλίζεις ὡς ἧττον μὲν ὑγιεινὰ ἐσθίοντος ἐμοῦ ἢ σοῦ, ἧττον δὲ ἰσχὺν παρέχοντα; ... (10) ἔοικας, ὦ Ἀντιφῶν, τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν οἰομένωι τρυφὴν καὶ πολυτέλειαν εἶναι· ἐγὼ δὲ νομίζω τὸ μὲν μηδενὸς δεῖσθαι θεῖον εἶναι τὸ δ' ὡς ἐλαχίστων ἐγγυτάτω τοῦ θείου, καὶ τὸ μὲν θεῖον κράτιστον, τὸ δ' ἐγγυτάτω τοῦ θείου ἐγγυτάτω τοῦ…","divisions":[{"label":"3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/#tlg1147-tlg002-local001-3"},{"label":"4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/#tlg1147-tlg002-local001-4"},{"label":"5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/#tlg1147-tlg002-local001-5"},{"label":"6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/#tlg1147-tlg002-local001-6"},{"label":"7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/#tlg1147-tlg002-local001-7"},{"label":"8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/#tlg1147-tlg002-local001-8"},{"label":"9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/#tlg1147-tlg002-local001-9"},{"label":"Section 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/#tlg1147-tlg002-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1147.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1147/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}