{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4000.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4000.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4000.tlg001.local001","title":"Epistulae","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":null,"authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":null,"editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Epistulae, ed. O. Mazal, Aristaeneti epistularum libri ii, Stuttgart: Teubner, 1971: 1–100. Cod: 15,130: Epist.","citationShort":"Epistulae, ed. O. Mazal, Aristaeneti epistularum libri ii, Stuttgart: Teubner, 1971: 1–100."},"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":"Epistulae. Epistulae, ed. O. Mazal, Aristaeneti epistularum libri ii, Stuttgart: Teubner, 1971: 1–100.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4000.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"{ΑΡΙΣΤΑΙΝΕΤΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ Αʹ} {αʹ Ἀρισταίνετος Φιλοκάλῳ.} Λαΐδα τὴν ἐμὴν ἐρωμένην εὖ μὲν ἐδημιούργησεν ἡ φύσις, κάλλιστα δὲ πάντων ἐκόσμησεν Ἀφροδίτη, καὶ τῶν Χαρί- των συνηρίθμησε τῷ χορῷ· ὁ δὲ χρυσοῦς Ἔρως ἐπαίδευσε τὴν ποθουμένην εὐστόχως ἐπιτοξεύειν ταῖς τῶν ὀμμάτων βολαῖς. ὢ φύσεως τὸ κάλλιστος φιλοτέχνημα, ὢ γυναικῶν εὔκλεια καὶ διὰ πάντων ἔμψυχος τῆς Ἀφροδίτης εἰκών. ἐκείνῃ γὰρ (ἵνα κάλλος ἀφροδίσιον εἰς δύναμιν διαγράψω τοῖς λόγοις) λευκαὶ μὲν ἐπιμὶξ καὶ ὑπέρυθροι παρειαί, καὶ ταύτῃ τὸ φαιδρὸν ἐκμιμοῦνται τῶν ῥόδων· χείλη δὲ λεπτὰ καὶ ἠρέμα διῃρημένα καὶ τῶν παρειῶν ἐρυθρότερα· ὀφρύς τε μέλαινα, τὸ μέλαν ἄκρατον· τὸ δὲ μεσόφρυον ἐμμέτρως τὰς ὀφρῦς διορίζει· ῥὶς εὐθεῖα καὶ παρισουμένη τῇ λεπτό- τητι τῶν χειλῶν· ὀφθαλμοὶ μεγάλοι τε καὶ διαυγεῖς καὶ καθαρῷ φωτὶ διαλάμποντες· τὸ δὲ μέλαν αὐτῶν, αἱ κόραι μελάνταται, καὶ τὸ κύκλῳ λευκόν, αἱ γλῆναι λευκόταται, καὶ ἑκάτερον…","divisions":[{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4000.tlg001.local001/#tlg4000-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4000.tlg001.local001/#tlg4000-tlg001-local001-segment-1"},{"label":"1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4000.tlg001.local001/#tlg4000-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4000.tlg001.local001/#tlg4000-tlg001-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4000.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4000.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4000/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}