{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1791.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1791.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1791.tlg001.local001","title":"Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":null,"authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":null,"editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis, ed. S. Jäkel, Menandri sententiae, Leipzig: Teubner, 1964: 87–120. Q: 4,148: Gnom.","citationShort":"Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis, ed. S. Jäkel, Menandri sententiae, Leipzig: Teubner, 1964: 87–120."},"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":"Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis. Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis, ed. S. Jäkel, Menandri sententiae, Leipzig: Teubner, 1964: 87–120.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1791.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"{<ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΙΣΤΙΩΝΟΣ ΓΝΩΜΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΟΙ>} {{Μεν.}} Φιλιστίωνα τὸν καλόν τε κἀγαθὸν ἐγὼ Μένανδρος πολλὰ χαίρειν βούλομαι. {{Φιλ.}} Κἀγὼ τάδ' αὐτὰ βούλομαι Φιλιστίων προσεννέπειν, Μένανδρε, τὴν ἴσην χάριν. {{Μεν.}} Ἀπαρενόχλητος ὁ τόπος ἡμῖν τυγχάνει, καὶ τοῦ λέγειν ἄρξασθ' 〈ἐγὼ〉 δὴ βούλομαι. {{Φιλ.}} Ἕτοιμον εὑρήσεις με. καὶ γὰρ τῆς σχολῆς εὐκαιρία προτρέψεται λέγειν σοφῶς. {{Μεν.}} Ὁρᾷς ἐπὶ γῆς ἄνθρωπον † τεθνηκότα; ἄμεινον ἡμᾶς μὴ γενέσθαι μηδ' ὅλως. {{Φιλ.}} Ἆρ' οὗτος οὐ κατεῖδε τὸν ἑαυτοῦ χρόνον ἢ 〈τὸν〉 δι' ἄστρων ἀριθμὸν οὐκ ἐγνώρισεν; {{Μεν.}} Εἰ γὰρ μαθὼν ἦν καὶ χρόνους ἠπίστατο, ἔδει τότ' αὐτὸν θνητὸν ὄντα μὴ θανεῖν; {{Φιλ.}} Ἐν δειλίᾳ γὰρ ζῶντες ἡμεῖς τοῦ βίου ὄντως 〈γὰρ〉 {νῦν} ἡμῖν 〈νῦν〉 πλάνη παρίσταται. {{Μεν.}} Ὅταν θέλῃ τις τἀτρεκῆ προμανθάνειν, μάτην πλανᾶται τὸ σαφὲς † σοφῶς μαθεῖν. {{Φιλ.}} Ἐὰν θελήσῃς βίον ἄλυπον ἐκτελεῖν, μὴ προσδόκα τὸ μέλλον ἢ λυπῇ μάτην.…","divisions":[{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1791.tlg001.local001/#tlg1791-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1791.tlg001.local001/#tlg1791-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1791.tlg001.local001/#tlg1791-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1791.tlg001.local001/#tlg1791-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Section 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1791.tlg001.local001/#tlg1791-tlg001-local001-segment-1"},{"label":"4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1791.tlg001.local001/#tlg1791-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Section 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1791.tlg001.local001/#tlg1791-tlg001-local001-segment-2"},{"label":"4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1791.tlg001.local001/#tlg1791-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Section 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