# Ἐπιστολαί. Διαλέξεις. λ

Philostratus the Athenian, Ἐπιστολαί. Διαλέξεις., Ἐπιστολαί. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philostratus-the-athenian/text-2/%CE%BB

τὸ μὲν ἔργον ἕν, ἄν τε ἐπὶ ἀνδρὸς ἄν τε ἐπὶ μοιχοῦ γένηται, τὸ δὲ τῷ κινδύνῳ σφαλερώτερον τῇ χάριτι μεῖζον· οὐχ οὕτω γὰρ εὐφραίνει τὸ φανερὸν τῆς ἐξουσίας ὡς τὸ ἀπόρρητον τῆς ἡδονῆς, πᾶν δὲ τερπνότερον τὸ κεκλεμμένον. οὕτω καὶ Ποσειδῶν ὑπῆλθε πορφύρῳ κύματι καὶ βοὶ Ζεὺς καὶ χρυσῷ ὕδατι καὶ δράκοντι καὶ ἄλλοις προκαλύμμασιν, ἀφʼ ὧν Διόνυσος καὶ Ἀπόλλων καὶ Ἡρακλῆς καὶ οἱ ἐκ μοιχείας θεοί. λέγει δὲ Ὅμηρος καὶ τὴν Ἥραν ἰδεῖν αὐτὸν τότε ἡδέως, ὅτε αὐτῇ συνῄει λάθρα, τὴν γὰρ ἀνδρὸς ἐξουσίαν μετέθηκεν ἐς κλοπὴν μοιχείας.

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Philostratus the Athenian, Ἐπιστολαί. Διαλέξεις., ed. Carl Ludwig Kayser. 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/tlg0638.tlg006.local001/.