---
title: Fragments on Comedy
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Κωμῳδίας
author: Cephisodorus the Comic Poet
eul_wid: eec-ab
eul_aid: eec
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/cephisodorus-comic-fragments-eec-ab"
period: Classical
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Comedy

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Κωμῳδίας*

**Author:** Cephisodorus the Comic Poet

**eul_wid:** `eec-ab` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/cephisodorus-comic-fragments-eec-ab)

## Text

### book 1

Σκώπτεις μ’, ἐγὼ δὲ τοῖς λόγοις ὄνος ὕομαι.

### book 1.1

[spk_β]Ἔπειτ’ ἀλείφεσθαι τὸ σῶμά μοι

### book 1.2

πρίω μύρον ἴρινον καὶ ῥόδινον, ἄγαμαι Ξανθία καὶ τοῖς

### book 1.3

ποσὶν

### book 1.4

χωρὶς

### book 1.5

πρίω μοι βάκχαριν. Β. ὦ λακκόπρωκτε, βάκχαριν

### book 1.6

τοῖς

### book 1.7

σοῖς

### book 1.8

ποσὶν[ln_5]ἐγὼ πρίωμαι; λαικάσομ’ ἄρα. βάκχαριν;

### book 2.1

Σανδάλιά τε τῶν λεπτοσχιδῶν, ἐφ’ οἷς τὰ χρυσᾶ ταῦτ’ ἔπεστιν ἄνθεμα· νῦν δ’ ὥσπερ ἡ θεράπαιν’ ἔχω

### book 2.2

περιβαρίδας.

### book 1

Ὦ καὶ λέων καὶ μυγαλῆ καὶ σκορπίος.

### book 2.1

Κρεάδιόν

### book 2.2

τι φαῦλον ἢ ταρίχιον.

### book 3

Οὐδ’ ὀψοφάγος οὐδ’ ἀδολέσχης.

### book 1

Ἄγε δὴ τίς ἀρχὴ τῶν λόγων γενήσεται;

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