---
title: "Fragments on Achilles' Naming"
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ τῆς τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως Ὀνομασίας
author: Agamestor
eul_wid: dbq-aa
eul_aid: dbq
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/agamestor-achilles-naming-dbq-aa"
period: Classical
dialect: "Ionic (el, frg)"
domain: Poetry
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Achilles' Naming

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ τῆς τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως Ὀνομασίας*

**Author:** Agamestor

**eul_wid:** `dbq-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/agamestor-achilles-naming-dbq-aa)

## Text

### book 14.1

[ln_1]παιδνῷ δ’ οὔνομα θῆκε

### book 14.2

Πυρίσσοον, ἀλλ’ Ἀχιλῆα [para]Πηλεὺς κίκλησκε〈ν〉, χείλεος εἵνεκά μιν κείμενον ἐν κονίῃ σποδιῇ 〈τ’〉 ἔνι πῦρ ἀπάμερσε

### book 14.3

χείλεος αἰθομένοι’ ἀπροφάτως ἑτέρου.

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