---
title: "Perinthia, Fragments Known from Elsewhere"
title_greek: Περίνθια Ἀποσπάσματα
author: Menander of Athens
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eul_aid: hps
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sha256: dd02423613701a15182711f444d52b1f7ddecef3eef76a5a4bad83fea37c7838
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: CC0-1.0
---

# Perinthia, Fragments Known from Elsewhere

*Περίνθια Ἀποσπάσματα*

**Author:** Menander of Athens

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## Text

### book 1.1

οἱ τῶν μετοίκων Ἀθήνησι

### book 1.2

προ‐ εστηκότες

### book 2

τὸ παιδίον 〈δ’〉 εἰσῆλθεν ἑψητοὺς φέρον.

### book 3.1

ὅστις

### book 3.2

παραλαβὼν δεσπότην ἀπράγμονα καὶ κοῦφον ἐξαπατᾶι θεράπων, οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅ τι οὗτος μεγαλεῖόν ἐστι διαπεπραγμένος, ἐπαβελτερώσας τὸν πάλαι 〈γ’〉 ἀβέλτερον.

### book 4.1

οὐδεμίαν ἡ γραῦς ὅλως κύλικα

### book 4.2

παρῆκεν ἀλλὰ πίνει τὴν κύκλωι.

### book 5.1

οὐπώποτ’ ἐζήλωσα

### book 5.2

πολυτελῆ νεκρόν· εἰς τὸν ἴσον ὄγκον τῶι

### book 5.3

σφόδρ’ ἔρχετ’ εὐτελεῖ.

### book 6

ὅς’ ἐστὶ μαλακὰ συλλαβὼν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως τὸ σύνολον ἐκπήδα, φίλος, θᾶττον.

### book 7

τὰ δ’ ἄλλ’ ἀνέπαφα σώματ’ οὐδὲ λη〈πτέα〉

### book 8.1

ἐπὶ τῶν ἁμαξῶν εἰσι

### book 8.2

πομπεῖαί τινες

### book 8.3

σφόδρα λοίδοροι.

### book 9

οὐδ’ αὐτός εἰμι σὺν θεοῖς ὑπόξυλος.

### book 10

Αἰάντειος γέλως

## License and provenance

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