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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421
Sclerias the Tragedian
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Sclerias, Tragic Fragments in Snell

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Sclerias is a tragedian in Snell, Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta 1, pp. 323–324 (Canon: 〈SCLERIAS〉 Trag., Incertum). Three pieces survive. One: in many mortals the look is well-born, but the mind in them is found ignoble. Two: unbearable is the man who, drunk or mad, is always safe toward himself and sick toward his neighbours. Four (starred): war does not plunder virtue as booty.

Moralising tragic iambics, quoted as gnome, not a tragedian who left no verse.

The slot is those three lines on looks, drink, and war.

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