{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2040.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg002.local001","title":"Πρὸς τοὺς νέους, ὅπως ἂν ἐξ Ἑλληνικῶν ὠφελοῖντο λόγων","titleGreek":"Πρὸς τοὺς νέους, ὅπως ἂν ἐξ Ἑλληνικῶν ὠφελοῖντο λόγων","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea","authorityName":"BASILIUS Caesariensis Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2040-basilius-caesariensis/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2040-basilius-caesariensis/","editors":["Roy J. Deferrari"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"The Letters","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann","place":"London","date":"1934","volume":"4","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/letterswithengli04basiuoft/page/378/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Basil, Saint, Bishop Of Caesarea. Πρὸς τοὺς νέους, ὅπως ἂν ἐξ Ἑλληνικῶν ὠφελοῖντο λόγων. ed. Roy J. Deferrari. The Letters, London, William Heinemann, 1934. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"Πολλά με τὰ παρακαλοῦντά ἐστι ξυμβουλεῦσαι ὑμῖν, ὦ παῖδες, ἃ βέλτιστα εἶναι κρίνω, καὶ ἃ ξυνοίσειν ὑμῖν ἑλομένοις πεπίστευκα. τό τε γὰρ ἡλικίας οὕτως ἔχειν καὶ τὸ διὰ πολλῶν ἤδη γεγυμνάσθαι πραγμάτων καὶ μὴν καὶ τὸ τῆς πάντα παιδευούσης ἐπ’ ἄμφω μεταβολῆς ἱκανῶς μετασχεῖν, ἔμπειρόν με εἶναι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πεποίηκεν, ὥστε τοῖς ἄρτι καθισταμένοις τὸν βίον ἔχειν ὥσπερ ὁδῶν τὴν ἀσφαλεστάτην ὑποδεικνύναι. τῇ τε παρὰ τῆς φύσεως οἰκειότητι εὐθὺς μετὰ τοὺς γονέας ὑμῖν τυγχάνω, ὥστε μήτε αὐτὸς αὐτὸν editi antiqui. ἔλαττόν τι πατέρων εὐνοίας νέμειν ὑμῖν· ὑμᾶς δὲ νομίζω, εἰ μή τι ὑμῶν διαμαρτάνω τῆς γνώμης, μὴ ποθεῖν τοὺς τεκόντας, πρὸς ἐμὲ βλέποντας. εἰ μὲν οὖν προθύμως δέχοισθε τὰ λεγόμενα, τῆς δευτέρας τῶν ἐπαινουμένων ἔσεσθε παρ’ Ἡσιόδῳ τάξεως· εἰ δὲ μή, ἐγὼ μὲν οὐδὲν ἂν εἴποιμι δυσχερές, αὐτοὶ δὲ μέμνησθε τῶν ἐπῶν δηλονότι, ἐν οἷς ἐκεῖνός φησιν ἄριστον μὲν εἶναι τὸν παρ’ ἑαυτοῦ τὰ δέοντα…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/#tlg2040-tlg002-local001-10"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2040.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}