---
title: Comic Fragments on Human Folly
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἀνθρωπίνης Μωρίας
author: "Sosicrates the Comic Poet "
eul_wid: kyq-ab
eul_aid: kyq
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/grc/sosicrates-the-comic-poet/comic-fragments"
canonical_json: "https://eulogikon.org/data/works/grc/sosicrates-the-comic-poet-comic-fragments-kyq-ab.json"
sha256: "683788bb42667cce7b997438a42164607c2f1fc5815ad2a89067541561efcd62"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: "Attic (com, frg)"
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: CC0-1.0
---

# Comic Fragments on Human Folly

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἀνθρωπίνης Μωρίας*

**Author:** Sosicrates the Comic Poet 

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## Text

### book 1.1

Ὅταν γάρ, οἶμαι, λευκὸς ἄνθρωπος, παχύς, ἀργός, λάβῃ δίκελλαν εἰωθὼς

### book 1.2

τρυφᾶν

### book 1.3

πενταστάτηρον, γίγνεται τὸ πνεῦμ’ ἄνω.

### book 1.1

Λεπτὴ δὲ κυρτοῖς ἐγγελῶσα κύμασιν αὔρα, κόρη

### book 1.2

Σκείρωνος, ἡσύχῳ ποδί προσῆγε

### book 1.3

πράως καὶ καλῶς τὸν κάνθαρον.

### book 1.1

Ἀγαθοὶ δὲ τὸ κακόν ἐσμεν ἐφ’ ἑτέρων ἰδεῖν, αὐτοὶ δ’ ὅταν

### book 1.2

ποιῶμεν οὐ γιγνώσκομεν.

### book 3.1

Ὅταν

### book 3.2

ποθεῖν λέγῃ σε καὶ στέργειν γυνή, φοβοῦ παρ’ αὐτῆς

### book 3.3

πλείον’ ὧν λέγει κακά.

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