{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2034.tlg009.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2034.tlg009.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2034.tlg009.local001","title":"In Platonis Timaeum commentaria","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"PORPHYRIUS Phil.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2034-porphyrius/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"In Platonis Timaeum commentaria (fragmenta), ed. A. R. Sodano, Porphyrii in Platonis Timaeum commentariorum fragmenta, Milan: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino, 1964: 1–48, 60–69. Cod: 10,358: Comm., Exeget.","citationShort":"In Platonis Timaeum commentaria (fragmenta), ed. A. R. Sodano, Porphyrii in Platonis Timaeum commentariorum fragmenta, Milan: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino, 1964: 1–48, 60–69."},"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":"In Platonis Timaeum commentaria. In Platonis Timaeum commentaria (fragmenta), ed. A. R. Sodano, Porphyrii in Platonis Timaeum commentariorum fragmenta, Milan: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino, 1964: 1–48, 60–69.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2034.tlg009.local001","excerpt":"μιμητικὸν ἔθνος, οἷς ἂν ἐντραφῇ, ταῦτα μιμή- σεται ῥᾷστα καὶ ἄριστα, τὸ δ' ἐκτὸς τῆς τροφῆς ἑκάστοις γιγνόμενον χαλεπὸν μὲν ἔργοις, ἔτι δὲ χαλεπώτερον λόγοις εὖ μιμεῖσθαι> [19 D 3—E 2]〉. Ἀπορεῖται δὲ ὑπὸ <Λογγίνου> καὶ <Ὠριγένους> ὁ λόγος, μήποτε καὶ τὸν Ὅμηρον περιείληφεν ἐν τοῖς ποιηταῖς εἰπὼν τὴν αὐ- τὴν εἰληφέναι δόξαν οὐ περὶ τῶν ὄντων μόνον—τοῦτο γὰρ οὐδὲν καινόν—ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τῶν πάλαι γεγονότων ποιητῶν. ὥστε, φησὶν <ὁ Πορφύριος>, τριῶν ὅλων ἡμερῶν διατελέσαι τὸν Ὠριγένη βοῶντα καὶ ἐρυθριῶντα καὶ ἱδρῶτι πολλῷ κατεχόμενον, μεγάλην εἶναι λέγοντα τὴν ὑπόθεσιν καὶ τὴν ἀπορίαν, καὶ δεικνύναι φιλοτιμούμενον, ὅτι πρὸς τὰς κατ' ἀρετὴν πράξεις ἀρκοῦσά ἐστιν ἡ παρ' Ὁμήρῳ μί- μησις· τίς γὰρ Ὁμήρου μεγαλοφωνότερος, ὃς καὶ θεοὺς εἰς ἔριν καὶ μάχην καταστήσας οὐ διαπίπτει τῆς μιμήσεως, ἀλλ' ἀρκεῖ τῇ φύσει τῶν πραγμάτων ὑψηλολογούμενος; ταῦτα μὲν ὁ ἐνιστάμενος λόγος. ἀπαντῶν δὲ <ὁ Πορφύριός>…","divisions":[{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2034.tlg009.local001/#tlg2034-tlg009-local001-1"},{"label":"2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2034.tlg009.local001/#tlg2034-tlg009-local001-2"},{"label":"Section 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2034.tlg009.local001/#tlg2034-tlg009-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2034.tlg009.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2034.tlg009.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2034/tlg009/local001.json.gz"}}