---
title: Fragments on Achilles and Love
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἀχιλλέως καὶ Ἔρωτος
author: Aristarchus of Tegea
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period: Classical
dialect: "Attic (dr, frg)"
domain: Drama
format: Verse
license: CC0-1.0
---

# Fragments on Achilles and Love

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἀχιλλέως καὶ Ἔρωτος*

**Author:** Aristarchus of Tegea

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## Text

### book 1a.1

[ln_1]περὶ Ἀχιλλ]έως

### book 1a.2

τοῦ Ἀριστάρχου· [para]Ὁ]μηρείης ἀπὸ βύβλου [para][ ]σονα

### book 1a.3

τε̣ ὃ̣ς̣ πλάσατο [para][ ]νονι καὶ τὸν ἄριστον[ln_5][ ]ησαμενος

### book 1b.1

[ln_1]καὶ ταῦτ’ ἴσον μὲν εὖ λέγειν, ἴσον δὲ μή· ἴσον δ’ ἐρευνᾶν, ἐξ ἴσου δὲ μὴ εἰδέναι. πλέον γὰρ οὐδὲν οἱ σοφοὶ τῶν μὴ σοφῶν εἰς

### book 1b.2

ταῦτα γιγνώσκουσιν. εἰ δ’ ἄλλου λέγει[ln_5]ἄμεινον ἄλλος, τῷ λέγειν ὑπερφέρει

### book 2

Ἔρωτος ὅστις μὴ πεπείραται βροτῶν, οὐκ οἶδ’ ἀνάγκης θεσμόν· ᾧ πεισθεὶς ἐγώ οὕτω κρατηθεὶς τάσδ’ ἀπεστάλην ὁδούς. οὗτος γὰρ ὁ θεὸς καὶ τὸν ἀσθενῆ σθένειν[ln_5]τίθησι καὶ τὸν ἄπορον εὑρίσκειν πόρον

### book 3

ὦ θάνατε, σωφρόνισμα τῶν ἀγνωμόνων

### book 4

τάδ’ οὐχ ὑπάρχων, ἀλλὰ τιμωρούμενος (πρὸς σὲ λέγω ?)

### book 5

Ταλαός (vel Καλαός ?) pater Parthenopaei

### book 6

ἀείταν

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