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title: Culinary and Medical Dialogues
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα
author: "Philemon the Younger "
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period: Hellenistic
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
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# Culinary and Medical Dialogues

*Ἀποσπάσματα*

**Author:** Philemon the Younger 

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## Text

### book 1.1

Ἐάσαθ’ οὕτως ὡς ἔχει. τὸ πῦρ μόνον

### book 1.2

ποιεῖτε

### book 1.3

τοῖς ὀπτοῖσι μήτ’ ἀνειμένον, τὸ γὰρ

### book 1.4

τοιοῦτ’ οὐκ ὀπτὸν ἀλλ’ ἑφθὸν

### book 1.5

ποιεῖ· μήτ’ ὀξύ, κατακάει γὰρ ὅς’ ἂν ἔξω λάβῃ[ln_5]τοῦτο πάλιν, εἰς τὴν σάρκα δ’ οὐκ ἐνδύεται. μάγειρός ἐστιν οὐκ ἐὰν ζωμήρυσιν ἔχων

### book 1.6

τις ἔλθῃ καὶ μάχαιραν

### book 1.7

πρός

### book 1.8

τινα, οὐδ’ ἄν

### book 1.9

τις εἰς τὰς λοπάδας ἰχθῦς ἐμβάλῃ· ἀλλ’ ἔστι

### book 1.10

τις

### book 1.11

φρόνησις ἐν τῷ πράγματι.

### book 2-3

[spk_β]Τίς οὗτός ἐστιν; Β. ἰατρός. Α. ὡς κακῶς ἔχει ἅπας ἰατρός, ἂν κακῶς μηδεὶς ἔχῃ. Μόνῳ δ’ ἰατρῷ τοῦτο καὶ συνηγόρῳ ἔξεστ’, ἀποκτείνειν μὲν ἀποθνήσκειν δὲ μή.

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