---
title: Riddles and Paradoxes
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα
author: Cleobulina Scriptor Aenigmatum
eul_wid: atq-aa
eul_aid: atq
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/cleobulina-riddles-paradoxes-atq-aa"
period: Archaic
dialect: Ionic Elegiac
domain: Poetry
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Riddles and Paradoxes

*Ἀποσπάσματα*

**Author:** Cleobulina Scriptor Aenigmatum

**eul_wid:** `atq-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/cleobulina-riddles-paradoxes-atq-aa)

## Text

### book 1.1

ἄνδρ’ εἶδον

### book 1.2

πυρὶ χαλκὸν ἐπ’ ἀνέρι κολλήσαντα οὕτω

### book 1.3

συγκόλλως ὥστε σύναιμα

### book 1.4

ποιεῖν.

### book 2.1

ἄνδρ’ εἶδον κλέπτοντα καὶ ἐξαπατῶντα βιαίως, καὶ τὸ βίαι ῥέξαι

### book 2.2

τοῦτο δικαιότατον.

### book 3

κνήμηι νεκρὸς ὄνος με κερασφόρωι οὖας ἔκρουσεν·

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