---
title: Epigram
title_greek: Ἐπίγραμμα
author: Aesop the Fabulist
eul_wid: aqo-ao
eul_aid: aqo
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/aesop-epigrams-aqo-ao"
period: Archaic
dialect: Mixed Dialects
domain: Fiction
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Epigram

*Ἐπίγραμμα*

**Author:** Aesop the Fabulist

**eul_wid:** `aqo-ao` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/aesop-epigrams-aqo-ao)

## Text

### book 123.1.1

Πῶς τις ἄνευ θανάτου σε φύγοι, βίε; μυρία γάρ σευ

### book 123.1.2

λυγρά, καὶ οὔτε φυγεῖν εὐμαρὲς οὔτε φέρειν.

### book 123.1.3

ἡδέα μὲν γάρ σευ τὰ φύσει καλά, γαῖα, θάλασσα,

### book 123.1.4

ἄστρα, σεληναίης κύκλα καὶ ἠελίου·

### book 123.5

τἆλλα δὲ πάντα φόβοι τε καὶ ἄλγεα· κἤν τι πάθῃ τις

### book 123

ἐσθλόν, ἀμοιβαίην ἐκδέχεται νέμεσιν.

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