{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4021.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4021.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4021.tlg001.local001","title":"Prolegomena philosophiae","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"David the Invincible","authorityName":"DAVID Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4021-david/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4021-david/","editors":["Adolf Busse"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Davidis Prolegomena et in Porphyrii Isagogen Commentarium","edition":null,"publisher":"Reimer","place":"Berlin","date":"1904","volume":"18.2","series":"Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca","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://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101075724144?urlappend=%3Bseq=332","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"David The Invincible. Prolegomena philosophiae. ed. Adolf Busse. Davidis Prolegomena et in Porphyrii Isagogen Commentarium, Berlin, Reimer, 1904. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4021.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Κ. f. 127r <Ορᾶξις α΄.>. Οἱ τῶν τὴς φιλοσοφίας λόγων ἐρῶντες καὶ τῆς ἐκ τούτων ἡδονῆς ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ γευσάμενοι, πάσῃ τῇ τοῦ βίου φροντίδι χαίρειν εἰπόντες, σώφρονί τινι μανία πρὸς τούτους ἐλαυνόμενοι φαίνονται καὶ τῇ τῶν ὄντων ἐπιστήμῃ συντόμως αὐτῶν ψυχαγωγοῦσι τὸν ἔρωτα· ἐπιστήμη δὲ τῶν ὄντων ἐστὶν ἡ φιλοσοφία, ὡς σὺν θεῷ μαθησόμεθα. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν καὶ ἡμᾶς σοφὸς ἔρως καὶ πολλὴ προθυμία εἰς τοῦτον διήλασε τὸν ἀγῶνα, φέρε τὸν τῆς φιλοσοφίας θεῖον ἀγῶν ὑποδυσώμεθα, μὴ τὸ παρὸν δυσχερὲς ἐπιλογιζόμενοι, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸ πέρας τῆς θείας ἐπαγγελίας αὐτῆς ἀποβλέποντες πάντα μόχθον ἐλάττονα καὶ δεύτερον αὐτῆς ἡγησώμεθα. Δοκεῖ δέ μοι μικρὸν ἀναβάλλεσθαι τὴν ἐγκύκλιον ἐξήγησιν Ἀριστοτελιχοῖς πειθομένῳ θεσμοῖς, ὡς δεῖ ἐν ἑκάστῳ σχεδὸν πράγματι τὰ τέσσαρα ταῦτα ζητεῖν κεφάλαια· εἰ ἔστι, τί ἐστι, ὁποῖόν τί ἐστι καὶ διὰ τί ἐστι. καὶ εἰκότως τὰ τέσσαρα ταῦτα ζητοῦμεν· τῶν γὰρ πραγμάτων τὰ μὲν ἀνύπαρκτά…","divisions":[{"label":"TA ΠΡΟΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΛ ΤΗΣ ΦΙΛΟΣOΦΙΑΣ ΑΠΟ ΦΩΝΗΣ ΔΑΒΙΔ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟΦΙΛΕΣΤΑΤΟΥ KAI ΘΕΟΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΥ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4021.tlg001.local001/#tlg4021-tlg001-local001-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4021.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4021.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4021/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}