---
title: Domestic Comedy Fragments
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα
author: Diocles Comicus
eul_wid: dam-ab
eul_aid: dam
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/diocles-domestic-comedy-dam-ab"
period: Classical
dialect: "Attic (com, frg)"
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Domestic Comedy Fragments

*Ἀποσπάσματα*

**Author:** Diocles Comicus

**eul_wid:** `dam-ab` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/diocles-domestic-comedy-dam-ab)

## Text

### book 1.1

Ὑδρία

### book 1.2

τις ἢ χαλκοῦς

### book 1.3

ποδανιπτὴρ ἢ λέβης.

### book 2

Πλυνεῖ τε τὰ κακὰ τῶν κακῶν ὑμᾶς.

### book 1

Ἅλλεται δ’ ὑφ’ ἡδονῆς κεστρεύς.

### book 1

Καὶ διὰ τετρημένων ἀθέλδεται τύπων.

### book 2

Πῶς δὲ καὶ κεκραμένον

### book 2

[spk_β]πίνειν τὸν οἶνον δεῖ με; Β. τέτταρα καὶ δύο.

### book 3

Ἀπὸ λασάνων θερμὴν ἀφαιρήσω χύτραν.

### book 4-5

Ἡ μίλτος οἶμαι καὶ τὸ τιγγάβαρι. Τιγγάβαρι καὶ μίλτος ἀναμεμιγμένη.

### book 1.1

Μηδείς

### book 1.2

ποθ’ ὑμῶν, ἄνδρες, ἐπιθυμησάτω γέρων γενέσθαι, προνοησάτω δ’ ὅπως νέος ὢν ἀγαθόν

### book 1.3

τι τῇ ψυχῇ παθών ὥρᾳ καταλύσει, μηδ’ ἀγόμφιόν

### book 1.4

ποτε[ln_5]αἰῶνα

### book 1.5

τρίψει.

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