{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1553.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1553.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1553.tlg001.local001","title":"De Incredibilibus","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Palaiphatos","authorityName":null,"authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":null,"editors":["Nicola Festa"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":null,"sourceTitle":"Mythographi Graeci","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1902","volume":"3.2","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":"The Center for Hellenic Studies","sponsors":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Digital Editor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/mythographigrae00heragoog/page/n21/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Palaiphatos. De Incredibilibus. ed. Nicola Festa. Mythographi Graeci, Leipzig, Teubner, 1902. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1553.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Τάδε περὶ τῶν ἀπίστων συγγέγραφα. ἀνθρώπων γὰρ οἱ μὲν εὐπειθέστεροι πείθονται πᾶσι τοῖς λεγομένοις, ὡς ἀνομίλητοι σοφίας καὶ ἐπιστήμης, οἱ δὲ πυκνότεροι τὴν φύσιν καὶ πολυπράγματοι ἀπιστοῦσι τὸ παράπαν μηδὲ γενέσθαι τι τούτων. ἐμοὶ δὲ δοκεῖ γενέσθαι πάντα τὰ λεγόμενα (οὐ γὰρ ὀνόματα μόνον ἐγένοντο, λόγος δὲ περὶ αὐτῶν οὐδεὶς ὑπῆρξεν· ἀλλὰ πρότερον ἐγένετο τὸ ἔργον, εἶθ’ οὕτως ὁ λόγος ὁ περὶ αὐτῶν)· ὅσα δὲ εἴδη καὶ μορφαί εἰσι λεγόμεναι καὶ γενόμεναι τότε, αἳ νῦν οὐκ εἰσί, τὰ τοιαῦτα οὐκ ἐγένοντο. εἰ γάρ ‹τί› ποτε καὶ ἄλλοτε ἐγένετο, καὶ νῦν τε γίνεται καὶ αὖθις ἔσται. ἀεὶ δὲ ἔγωγε ἐπαινῶ τοὺς συγγραφέας Μέλισσον καὶ Λαμίσκον τὸν Σάμιον ἐν ἀρχῇ λέγοντας ἔστιν ἃ ἐγένετο, καὶ νῦν ἔσται. γενομένων δέ τινα οἱ ποιηταὶ καὶ λογογράφοι παρέτρεψαν εἰς τὸ ἀπιστότερον καὶ θαυμασιώτερον, τοῦ θαυμάζειν ἕνεκα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους. ἐγὼ δὲ γινώσκω ὅτι οὐ δύναται τὰ τοιαῦτα εἶναι οἷα καὶ λέγεται· τοῦτο δὲ καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter prologue","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1553.tlg001.local001/#tlg1553-tlg001-local001-prologue"},{"label":"[Περὶ Κενταύρων.]","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1553.tlg001.local001/#tlg1553-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"[Περὶ Πασιφάης.]","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1553.tlg001.local001/#tlg1553-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"[Περὶ Σπαρτῶν.]","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1553.tlg001.local001/#tlg1553-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"[Περὶ τῆς Καδμείας Σφιγγός.]","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1553.tlg001.local001/#tlg1553-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"[Περὶ τῆς Τευμησίας Ἀλώπεκος.]","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1553.tlg001.local001/#tlg1553-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"[Περὶ Ἀκταίωνος.]","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1553.tlg001.local001/#tlg1553-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"[Περὶ τῶν Διομήδους 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