{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1699.tlg005.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1699.tlg005.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1699.tlg005.local001","title":"Περὶ συγκρίσεως πενίας καὶ πλούτου","titleGreek":"Περὶ συγκρίσεως πενίας καὶ πλούτου","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Teles Megarenesis","authorityName":"TELES Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1699-teles/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1699-teles/","editors":["Otto Hense"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Teletis Reliquiae","edition":null,"publisher":"Mohr","place":"Tübingen","date":"1909","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":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital editor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.30000047622596?urlappend=%3Bseq=171%3Bownerid=13510798896033477-175","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Teles Megarenesis. Περὶ συγκρίσεως πενίας καὶ πλούτου. ed. Otto Hense. Teletis Reliquiae, Tübingen, Mohr, 1909. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1699.tlg005.local001","excerpt":"Ἡ πενία κωλύει πρὸς τὸ φιλοσοφεῖν, ὁ δὲ πλοῦτος εἰς ταῦτα χρήσιμον. - Οὐκ εὖ. πόσους γὰρ οἴει δι’ εὐπορίαν ἢ δι’ ἔνδειαν κωλυθῆναι σχολάζειν; ἢ οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅτι ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ οἱ πτωχότατοι φιλοσοφοῦσιν, οἱ δὲ πλούσιοι διὰ ταῦτ’ αὐτὰ ἐν τῇ πάσῃ ἀσχολίᾳ εἰσίν; οὐ κακῶς δὲ καὶ Θέογνις λέγει πολλῷ τοι πλείους λιμοῦ κόρος ὤλεσεν ἄνδρας. ἐπεὶ ποῦ ἂν δείξειας δι’ ἔνδειαν κεκωλυμένους φιλοσοφεῖν, ὥσπερ διὰ πλοῦτον; ἢ οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅτι διὰ μὲν ἔνδειαν καρτερεῖν βιάζονται, διὰ δὲ πλοῦτον τὰ ἐναντία; ὅταν γάρ, οἶμαι, τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ προσγένηται εὐχερῶς πορίζεσθαι ὧν ἂν ἐπιθυμῇ, οὐκέτι οὗτος πρὸς τὸ πονεῖν ἢ ζητεῖν τι ἐστίν, ἀλλ’ ἔχων συνεργὸν τὸν πλοῦτον τῇ αὑτοῦ κακίᾳ, οὐδεμιᾶς ἡδονῆς ἀπέχεται. ἢ πάλιν οὐχ ὁρᾷς διότι οἱ μὲν πλούσιοι πλείω πράττοντες κωλύονται τοῦ σχολάζειν, ὁ δὲ πένης οὐκ ἔχων τί πράττῃ, πρὸς τὸ φιλοσοφεῖν γίνεται; Ζήνων ἔφη Κράτητα ἀναγινώσκειν ἐν σκυτείῳ καθήμενον τὸν Ἀριστοτέλους…","divisions":[{"label":"ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΤΕΛΗΤΟΣ ΕΠΙΤΟΜΗ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1699.tlg005.local001/#tlg1699-tlg005-local001-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1699.tlg005.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1699.tlg005.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1699/tlg005/local001.json.gz"}}