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title: Epigram Against Aristotle
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: Theocritus of Chios
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# Epigram Against Aristotle

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Theocritus of Chios

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## Text

### 738.(t)

epigramma in Aristotelem Ἑρμίου εὐνούχου τε καὶ Εὐβούλου τόδε δούλου σῆμα κενὸν κενόφρων θῆκεν Ἀριστοτέλης, ὃς διὰ τὴν ἀκρατῆ γαστρὸς φύσιν εἵλετο ναίειν ἀντ’ Ἀκαδημείας Βορβόρου ἐν προχοαῖς. *

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