{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2934.tlg021.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2934.tlg021.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2934.tlg021.local001","title":"De sacris jejuniis","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"JOANNES DAMASCENUS Scr. Eccl. et","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2934-joannes-damascenus-scr-eccl-et/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"De sacris jejuniis, MPG 95: 64–77. Cod: 2,189: Eccl.","citationShort":"De sacris jejuniis, MPG 95: 64–77."},"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://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrologia_Graeca_Vol._095.pdf","sourceLinkType":"facsimile","sourceRights":"Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0","citation":"De sacris jejuniis. De sacris jejuniis, MPG 95: 64–77.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2934.tlg021.local001","excerpt":"πραγμάτων περίστασις, ὅταν ἀνάγκη λαλεῖν, καὶ τὸ μὴ λαλεῖν οὐκ ἀκίνδυνον. Ἔστι δ' ὅτε καὶ τὸ πρέπον τοῦ δοκοῦντος καλοῦ προτιμητέον. Ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν πᾶς καιρὸς τοῦ σιωπᾷν· τὸ γὰρ λαλεῖν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐμαυ- τοῦ ἀπροσεξίας ἀφῄρημαι, καὶ ἄλλως κατὰ πρόσ- ωπον σοφῶν καὶ ὑψηλῶν τὴν διάνοιαν, οἷς ἡ ἀρετὴ τὸ ἄρχειν ἐνδίκως περιεποιήσατο, πῶς ὁ πένης τὴν ἀρετὴν φθέγγοιτο; Ταῦτα κατὰ νοῦν ἔχων, καὶ νῦν ἂν ἐσιώπησα, εἰ μὴ τὸ αἰδέσιμον τῆς σῆς, ὦ προσ- φιλέστατε, θεοφρουρήτου εὐκλείας πρὸς τὸ γράφειν ἐξεβιάσατο. Πολλὴν γὰρ τὴν τῶν τιμίων ἡμῶν γραμ- μάτων ἔπειξιν ἰδὼν, ἔκρινα μὴ ἄλλως καὶ μάτην ὑμᾶς πρὸς τὸ λέγειν προτρέπεσθαι, εἰ μή τις ἀνάγκη πρὸς τοῦτο κατήπειγε. Γράφω τοίνυν τῇ ἀρετῇ καὶ φιλίᾳ σου βιασθεὶς, καί μοι συγγνώτω πᾶς ὅστις οἶδε τῶν βιασαμένων τὸ ἰσχυρόν· γράφω δὲ μηδὲν τῆς ἀληθείας, ὡς οἷόν τε προτιθεὶς, ἣν ἁπάντων προ- τιμητέον, καὶ τοῦ ζῇν, μεθ' ἧς τὸ ζῇν αἱρετὸν, καὶ δι' ἣν θάνατος τοῦ…","divisions":[{"label":"95","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2934.tlg021.local001/#tlg2934-tlg021-local001-95"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2934.tlg021.local001/#tlg2934-tlg021-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2934.tlg021.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2934.tlg021.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2934/tlg021/local001.json.gz"}}