---
title: Fragments on Wealth and Virtue
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Πλούτου καὶ Ἀρετῆς
author: Athenaeus the Epigrammatist
eul_wid: kcs-aa
eul_aid: kcs
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/athenaeus-epigrammatist-wealth-virtue-kcs-aa"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine
domain: Poetry
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Wealth and Virtue

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Πλούτου καὶ Ἀρετῆς*

**Author:** Athenaeus the Epigrammatist

**eul_wid:** `kcs-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/athenaeus-epigrammatist-wealth-virtue-kcs-aa)

## Text

### book 225.1

[ln_1]ἄνθρωποι, μοχθεῖτε τὰ χείρονα, καὶ διὰ κέρδος [para]ἄπληστοι νεικέων ἄρχετε καὶ πολέμων· τᾶς φύσιος δ’ ὁ πλοῦτος ὅρον

### book 225.2

τινὰ βαιὸν ἐπίσχει, [para]αἱ δὲ κεναὶ κρίσιες τὰν ἀπέραντον ὁδόν.[ln_5]τοῦτο Νεοκλῆος

### book 225.3

πινυτὸν τέκος ἢ παρὰ Μουσέων [para]ἔκλυεν ἢ Πυθοῦς ἐξ ἱερῶν

### book 225.4

τριπόδων. *

### book 226.1

[ln_1]ὦ Στοϊκῶν μύθων εἰδήμονες, ὦ πανάριστα [para]δόγματα

### book 226.2

ταῖς ἱεραῖς ἐνθέμενοι

### book 226.3

σελίσιν, τὰν ἀρετὰν

### book 226.4

ψυχᾶς ἀγαθὸν μόνον· ἅδε γὰρ ἀνδρῶν [para]μούνα καὶ βιοτὰν ῥύσατο καὶ πόλιας.[ln_5]σαρκὸς δ’ ἁδυπάθημα, φίλον τέλος ἀνδράσιν ἄλλοις, ἁ μία τῶν Μνήμης ἤνυσε θυγατέρων. *

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