# Ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Πομπήιον 1.11

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Πομπήιον, Chapter 1. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/dionysius-of-halicarnassus/text-11/1.11

ὁπότε οὖν Πλάτων τὸ φορτικώτατον καὶ ἐπαχθέστατον τῶν ἔργων προελόμενος, αὑτὸν ἐπαινεῖν κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν τῶν λόγων, οὐδὲν ᾤετο ποιεῖν κατηγορίας ἄξιον, εἰ παρὰ τὸν ἄριστον τῶν τότε ῥητόρων τοὺς ἰδίους ἐξετάζειν ἠξίου λόγους ἐπιδεικνύμενος Λυσίαν τε ἐν οἷς ἡμάρτηκεν καὶ ἑαυτὸν ἐν οἷς κατώρθωκε, τί θαυμαστὸν ἐποίουν ἐγὼ τοῖς Δημοσθένους λόγοις συγκρίνων τοὺς Πλάτωνος καὶ εἴ τι μὴ καλῶς ἐν αὐτοῖς ἔχειν ᾤμην, ἐπιλογιζόμενος;

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Πομπήιον, ed. Hermann Usener, Ludwig Radermacher. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0081.tlg015.local001/.