---
title: Comic Fragments on Spartan Life
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ τοῦ Σπαρτιατικοῦ Βίου Κωμικά
author: Chionides the Comic Poet
eul_wid: bou-aa
eul_aid: bou
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/chionides-comic-sparta-bou-aa"
period: Archaic
dialect: "Attic (com, frg)"
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Comic Fragments on Spartan Life

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ τοῦ Σπαρτιατικοῦ Βίου Κωμικά*

**Author:** Chionides the Comic Poet

**eul_wid:** `bou-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/chionides-comic-sparta-bou-aa)

## Text

### book 1.1

πολλοὺς ἐγᾦδα κοὐ κατὰ σὲ νεανίας

### book 1.2

φρουροῦντας ἀτεχνῶς κἀν σάμακι κοιμωμένους.

### book 2.1

καὶ μὴν μὰ τὸν Δί’ οὐδὲν ἔτι γέ μοι δοκῶ ἄγνου διαφέρειν ἐν

### book 2.2

χαράδρᾳ πεφυκότος.

### book 3

ἑπτέτης

### book 4.1

ταῦτ’ οὐ μὰ Δία Γνήσιππος οὐδὲ Κλεομένης ἐν ἐννέ’ ἂν

### book 4.2

χορδαῖς κατεγλυκήνατο.

### book 5-6.1

ἆρ’ ἂν φάγοιτ’ ἂν καὶ ταρίχους, ὦ θεοί; ἐπὶ τῷ ταρίχει τῷδε

### book 5-6.2

τοίνυν κόπτετον.

### book 8.1

πυθοῦ χελιδὼν

### book 8.2

πηνίκ’ ἄττα

### book 8.3

φαίνεται.

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