{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2003.tlg005.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2003.tlg005.local001","title":"Ἀθηναίων τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ","titleGreek":"Ἀθηναίων τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Julian the Emperor","authorityName":"Flavius Claudius JULIANUS Imperator","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2003-flavius-claudius-julianus-imperator/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2003-flavius-claudius-julianus-imperator/","editors":["Wilmer Cave Wright"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"The Works of the Emperor Julian","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann","place":"London","date":"1913","volume":"2","series":"Loeb Classical Library","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":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/worksofemperorj02juli/page/242/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Julian The Emperor. Ἀθηναίων τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ. ed. Wilmer Cave Wright. The Works of the Emperor Julian, London, William Heinemann, 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2003.tlg005.local001","excerpt":"Πολλῶν εἰργασμένων τοῖς προγόνοις ὑμῶν, ἐφ’ οἷς οὐκ ἐκείνοις μόνον τότε ἐξῆν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑμῖν νῦν ἔξεστι φιλοτιμεῖσθαι, καὶ πολλῶν ἐγηγερμένων τροπαίων ὑπέρ τε ἁπάσης τῆς Ἑλλάδος κοινῇ καὶ κατ’ ἰδίαν ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς τῆς πόλεως, ἐν οἷς ἠγωνίσατο μόνη πρός τε τοὺς ἄλλους Ἕλληνας καὶ πρὸς τὸν βάρβαρον, οὐδέν ἐστι τηλικοῦτον ἔργον οὐδὲ ἀνδραγαθία τοσαύτη, πρὸς ἣν οὐκ ἔνεστι καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις ἁμιλληθῆναι πόλεσι. τὰ μὲν γὰρ μεθ’ ὑμῶν καὶ αὗται, τὰ δὲ κατ’ ἰδίαν εἰργάσαντο. καὶ ἵνα μὴ μεμνημένος ἔπειτα ἀντιπαραβάλλων ἢ προτιμᾶν ἑτέρας ἑτέραν ἐν οἷς διαμφισβητοῦσι νομισθείην ἢ πρὸς τὸ λυσιτελοῦν, ὥσπερ οἱ ῥήτορες, ἐνδεέστερον ἐπαινεῖν τὰς ἐλαττουμένας, τοῦτο ἐθέλω φράσαι μόνον ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, ᾧ μηδὲν ἀντίπαλον ἔχομεν ἐξευρεῖν παρὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις Ἕλλησιν, ἐκ τῆς παλαιᾶς φήμης εἰς ἡμᾶς παραδεδομένον. ἀρχόντων μὲν Λακεδαιμονίων οὐ βίᾳ τὴν ἀρχήν, ἀλλὰ δόξῃ δικαιοσύνης παρείλεσθε, καὶ τὸν Ἀριστείδην τὸν δίκαιον οἱ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-1"},{"label":"§ 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-2"},{"label":"§ 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-3"},{"label":"§ 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-4"},{"label":"§ 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-5"},{"label":"§ 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-6"},{"label":"§ 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-7"},{"label":"§ 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-8"},{"label":"§ 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-9"},{"label":"§ 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-10"},{"label":"§ 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-11"},{"label":"§ 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-12"},{"label":"§ 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/#tlg2003-tlg005-local001-13"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2003.tlg005.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003/tlg005/local001.json.gz"}}