---
title: Ethopoeic Exercise
title_greek: Ἠθοποιία
author: Epic Work  Anonymous
eul_wid: kjq-am
eul_aid: kjq
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/epic-anon-ethopoeia-kjq-am"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Epic (Homeric) (frg)
domain: Epic
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Ethopoeic Exercise

*Ἠθοποιία*

**Author:** Epic Work  Anonymous

**eul_wid:** `kjq-am` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/epic-anon-ethopoeia-kjq-am)

## Text

### unit_1

Τί βλοσυροῦ κυανωπὸν ὕδωρ ἐπιβαίνετε [πόν]του βύσσινα κολπώσαντες ἐφ’ ὁλκάσι χίλια λαίφη; τί πλόον ἐντύνεσθε ταχεῖς ἐπὶ πάτρια τείχη μηδὲ γέρας νείμαντες ἐς ἀσπίσι πολλὰ καμόντος εἰς ἀρετήν; ποῖον γὰρ ἀτείρεα μόχθον ἀνύσσας οὐκ ἔτλην; ποῖον δὲ δι’ Ἄρεος ἄνδρα κατά[ντη] [ο]ὐ νυχ[ίαν] Πλούτωνος ἐς ἄκριτον [ἤ]λασα μοῖραν;

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