The Teliambic Fragment of P.Oxy. 1.15

The Teliambic Fragment on P.Oxy. 1.15 is a short Imperial lyric that keeps returning to the refrain pipe me. Shepherds and herds of bulls appear; snows; Nemesis; a lyre; a tree putting on leaf. The singer says someone always counts money, but no one counts the evil, and that money and occasion bring what they bring.

Douglas Young printed it, after Diehl, in Theognis (Leipzig, 1971), p. 122. The heading names the metre: hexameter that closes in iambic (a teliambus). The copy is dated around the third century CE.

The Greek is that piped symposium lyric, not an empty heading for a missing poet.