---
title: "Fisherman's Sacrificial Rite"
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: Theocritus of Syracuse
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period: Hellenistic
dialect: Doric Bucolic
domain: Poetry
format: Verse
license: CC0-1.0
---

# Fisherman's Sacrificial Rite

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Theocritus of Syracuse

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## Text

### unit_1

fr. 3

### book 3.1

κεἴ τις ἀνὴρ αἰτεῖται ἐπαγροσύνην

### book 3.2

τε καὶ ὄλβον, ἐξ ἁλὸς ᾧ ζωή, τὰ δὲ δίκτυα κείνῳ ἄροτρα, σφάζων ἀκρόνυχος

### book 3.3

ταύτῃ θεῷ ἱερὸν ἰχθύν ὃν λεῦκον καλέουσιν, ὃ γάρ θ’ ἱερώτατος ἄλλων,[ln_5]καί κε λίνα

### book 3.4

στήσαιτο καὶ ἐξερύσαιτο θαλάσσης ἔμπλεα.

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