---
title: Fragments on Xanthias and Luxury
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ξανθίου καὶ Τρυφῆς
author: Cephisodorus the Comic Poet
eul_wid: eec-aa
eul_aid: eec
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/cephisodorus-comic-xanthias-luxury-eec-aa"
period: Classical
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Xanthias and Luxury

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ξανθίου καὶ Τρυφῆς*

**Author:** Cephisodorus the Comic Poet

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

## Text

### book 1

σκώπτεις μ’, ἐγὼ δὲ τοῖς λόγοις ὄνος ὕομαι.

### book 3.1

[spk_β]ἔπειτ’ ἀλείφεσθαι τὸ σῶμά μοι

### book 3.2

πρίω μύρον ἴρινον καὶ ῥόδινον, ἄγαμαι Ξανθία· καὶ τοῖς

### book 3.3

ποσὶν

### book 3.4

χωρὶς

### book 3.5

πρίω μοι βάκχαριν. Β. ὦ λακκόπρωκτε, βάκχαριν

### book 3.6

τοῖς

### book 3.7

σοῖς

### book 3.8

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

### book 4.1

σανδάλια δὲ τῶν λεπτοσχιδῶν, ἔφ’ οἷς τὰ χρυσᾶ ταῦτ’ ἔπεστιν ἄνθεμα· νῦν δ’ ὥσπερ ἡ θεράπαιν’ ἔχω

### book 4.2

περιβαρίδας.

### book 7

ὦ καὶ λέων καὶ μυγαλῆ καὶ σκορπίος

### book 8.1

κρεάδιόν

### book 8.2

τι φαῦλον ἢ ταρίχιον

### book 9

οὐδ’ ὀψοφάγος οὐδ’ ἀδολέσχης

### book 11

λυχναψίαν

### book 12

ἄγε δὴ τίς ἀρχὴ τῶν λόγων γενήσεται;

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