{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2586.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2586.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2586.tlg001.local001","title":"Διαίρεσις τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν (olim sub auctore Genethlio)","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Menander","authorityName":"MENANDER Rhet.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2586-menander/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2586-menander/","editors":["Leonhard von Spengel"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Rhetores Graeci","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1856","volume":"3","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":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":["Harvard College Library"],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","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":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_g31KAAAAYAAJ#page/n371/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Menander. Διαίρεσις τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν (olim sub auctore Genethlio). ed. Leonhard von Spengel. Rhetores Graeci, Leipzig, Teubner, 1856. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2586.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Τῆς ῥητορικῆς ἁπάσης τριχῶς διαιρουμένης ὡς μέρεσιν 1 Heeren p. 25 ἢ εἴδεσιν, ἢ ὅπως δι καλεῖν, εἰς τοὺς λόγους τοὺς 128 ἐν δικαστηρίοις ὑπὲρ κοινῶν ἤτοι δημοσίων ἤ ἰδίων, καὶ οὓς ἐν ἐκκλησίαις ἢ ἐν βουλαῖς διατίθενται, καὶ εἰς τρίτους τοὺς ἐπιδεικτικούς, οὓς δὴ ἐγκωμιαστικοὺς ἢ ψεκτικοὺς καλοῦσιν, ἀπολογεῖσθαι συμβαίνει ὑπὲρ 26 τούτων τῶν τὴν τρίτην τάξιν εἰληφότων διδάσκουσιν ὀρθῶς. μὴ τοίνυν περὶ ῥητορικῆς προσδόκα μόνον ἀκροᾶσθαι ἐξ ἀρχῆς, κἂν ἄνωθεν ὑπὲρ πάντων μέρος διεξιέναι σοι ἐν βραχυτάτῳ προαιρήσωμαι. σκεψώμεθα τοίνυν τὴν μέθοδον, εἰ καθʼ ὁδὸν χωρήσει. Τῶν δὴ ἐπιδεικτικῶν τὸ μὲν ψόγος, τὸ δὲ ἔπαινος· ἃς γὰρ ἐπιδείξεις λόγων πολιτικῶν οἱ σοφισταὶ καλούμενοι ποιοῦνται, μελέτην ἀγώνων εἶναί φαμεν, οὐκ ἐπίδειξιν. τὸ μὲν τοῦ ψόγου μέρος ἄτμητον. ἔπαινος δέ τις γίνεται, ὁτὲ μὲν εἰς τὰ θεῖα, ὁτὲ δὲ εἰς τὰ θνητά, 129 καὶ ὅτε μὲν εἰς θεούς, ὕμνους καλοῦμεν. καὶ τούτους 27 οὖ…","divisions":[{"label":"ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΡΗΤΟΡΟΣ 127 ΓΕΝΕΘ ΛΙΩΝ ΔΙΑΙΡΕΣΙΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΙΔΕΙΚΤΙΚΩΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2586.tlg001.local001/#tlg2586-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2586.tlg001.local001/#tlg2586-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2586.tlg001.local001/#tlg2586-tlg001-local001-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2586.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2586.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2586/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}