---
title: "On the Tyrant's Art"
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: "Demetrius the Younger "
eul_wid: khs-ab
eul_aid: khs
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/demetrius-younger-tyrant-art-khs-ab"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# On the Tyrant's Art

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Demetrius the Younger 

**eul_wid:** `khs-ab` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/demetrius-younger-tyrant-art-khs-ab)

## Text

### book 1.1

Ὅσον ἀπὸ ταύτης τῆς τέχνης εἴργασμ’ ἐγώ, οὐδεὶς ὑποκριτής ἐσθ’ ὅλως εἰργασμένος. καπνιζομένη

### book 1.2

τυραννὶς αὕτη ’σθ’ ἡ τέχνη. ἀβυρτακοποιὸς

### book 1.3

παρὰ Σέλευκον ἐγενόμην·[ln_5]παρ’ Ἀγαθοκλεῖ δὲ πρῶτος εἰσήνεγκ’ ἐγώ, τῷ Σικελιώτῃ τὴν

### book 1.4

τυραννικὴν

### book 1.5

φακῆν. τὸ μέγιστον οὐκ εἴρηκα· Λαχάρους

### book 1.6

τινός, ὅτ’ ἦν ὁ λιμός, ἑστιῶντος

### book 1.7

τοὺς φίλους, ἀνάληψιν ἐποίης’ εἰσενέγκας κάππαριν.

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