{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2200.tlg008.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2200.tlg008.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2200.tlg008.local001","title":"Characteres Epistolici","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Libanius","authorityName":"LIBANIUS Rhet. et Soph.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2200-libanius/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2200-libanius/","editors":["Eberhard Richtsteig"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Libanii Qui Feruntur Characteres Epistolici Prolegomena ad Epistulas","edition":"Editio Stereotypa","publisher":"Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung","place":"Hildesheim","date":"1963","volume":"9","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":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operarecensuitri09libauoft/page/27/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Libanius. Characteres Epistolici. ed. Eberhard Richtsteig. Libanii Qui Feruntur Characteres Epistolici Prolegomena ad Epistulas, Editio Stereotypa, Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1963. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2200.tlg008.local001","excerpt":"ὁ μὲν ἐπισταλτικὸς χαρακτὴρ ποικίλος τε καὶ πολυ- σχιδὴς ὑπάρχει, ὅθεν τῷ γράφειν βουλομένῳ προσήκει μὴ ἁπλῶς μηδ’ ὡς ἔτυχεν ἐπιστέλλειν, ἀλλὰ σὺν ἀκριβείᾳ πολλῇ καὶ τέχνη· ἄριστα δ’ ἄν τις ἐπιστεῖλαι δυνηθείη, 6 εἰ γνοίη, τί τέ ἐστιν ἐπιστολὴ καὶ τί λέγειν ὅλως ἐν αὐτῇ θέμις καὶ εἰς πόσας προσηγορίας διαιρεῖται. 2. Ἐπιστολὴ μὲν οὖν ἐστιν ὁμιλία τις ἐγγράμματος ἀπόντος πρὸς ἀπόντα γινομένη καὶ χρειώδη σκοπὸν ἐκ- πληροῦσα, ἐρεῖ δέ τις ἐν αὺτῇ ὧσπερ παρών τις πρὸς 10 παρόντα. 3. διαιρεῖται δὲ εἰς συχνάς τε καὶ παμπόλλους προσ- ηγορίας. οὐ γὰρ ἐπειδὴ ἐπιστολὴ προσαγορεύεται ἑνικῷ 8 Lib. ep. 1225 (XI 809, 16) 1 Ἐπιστολιμαῖοι χαρακτῆρες om D λιβανίου σοφιστοῦ ἐπιστολι- μαῖοι χαρακτῆρες BU pr Mor λιβανίου ἐπιστολιμαῖοι χαρακτῆρες Pa πρόκλου τοῦ πλατωνικοῦ περὶ ἐπιστολιμαίου χαρακτῆρος PHwes Her cf. p. 36, 9 περὶ τοῦ ἐπισταλτικοῦ χαρακτῆρος Har 2 Ὁ om D τε] om Ρ τις Pa πολυσχεδὴς VUBD 3 καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"ἐπιστολιμαῖοι χαρακτῆρες.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2200.tlg008.local001/#tlg2200-tlg008-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2200.tlg008.local001/#tlg2200-tlg008-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2200.tlg008.local001/#tlg2200-tlg008-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 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