---
title: "Chilon's Letter to Periander"
title_greek: Ἐπιστολή
author: Chilonis Letters
eul_wid: fzu-aa
eul_aid: fzu
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/grc/chilonis-letters/periander"
canonical_json: "https://eulogikon.org/data/works/grc/chilonis-letters-periander-fzu-aa.json"
sha256: "998da15897e8d42fb0d4d0832c4bc9551e4d36f597a09533bf4bef4cac0e044e"
period: Classical
dialect: Attic
domain: Rhetoric
format: Epistle
license: CC0-1.0
---

# Chilon's Letter to Periander

*Ἐπιστολή*

**Author:** Chilonis Letters

**eul_wid:** `fzu-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/grc/chilonis-letters/periander) · [Canonical JSON](https://eulogikon.org/data/works/grc/chilonis-letters-periander-fzu-aa.json)

## Text

### 1

Χείλων Περιάνδρῳ.

### 2

Ἐπιστέλλεις ἐμὶν ἐκστρατείαν ἐπὶ ἐκδάμως, ὡς αὐτός καὶ ἐξέρποις· ἐγὼν δὲ δοκέω καὶ τὰ οἰκῇα σφαλερὰ ἦμεν ἀνδρὶ μονάρχῳ, καὶ τῆνον τυράννων εὐδαι μονίζω ὅστις καὶ οἴκοι ἐξ αὐτὸς αὑτῶ κατθάνῃ.

## License and provenance

This text is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal. The canonical record is the JSON at https://eulogikon.org/data/works/grc/chilonis-letters-periander-fzu-aa.json (sha256:998da15897e8d42fb0d4d0832c4bc9551e4d36f597a09533bf4bef4cac0e044e). Cite as `eul_wid: fzu-aa`.