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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421 PDFMarkdown

Suicide of Severis by Erotic Narrative Anonymous

The Suicide of Severis, also referred to as Fragment, is a work unattested in the corpus of ancient Greek literature. The title and its attribution to an anonymous author of erotic narratives do not correspond to any known work or writer within standard scholarly references. The descriptive term Fragment is a generic label for an excerpt rather than a specific literary title. No verifiable content from this purported work exists in established academic sources, and there is no record of its transmission through any manuscript tradition or citation by later ancient authors. Consequently, the work holds no established significance in classical studies, as its existence cannot be confirmed within the historical record of surviving Greek texts.

… [ ]λ̣α̣[....]
[ ]αυτῳ ου[...]
[ ].σας ἀλλο[..]
[ ]ἡμέραν [..]
[ ]ως τότε ε[..]
[ ]ονιως .[]
[.....]απ[.]. [ἐ]μαυτοῦ̣ [..]
[..] τὸ ξίφος. διένευεν [δὲ]
κα[ὶ] τὸ εἴδωλον ὠθεῖν κα[ὶ]
προτρέποντι ἐῴκει. φαιδρὸς
οὖν καὶ γεγηθώς, ὥσπερ
πολέμιον κτείνων,
ἐμαυτὸν ἀποσφάττω.
ἐπεὶ δὲ ἔπεσον καὶ ἀπέθανον,
γνωρίζω τὸ εἴδωλον,
Σευῆρις ἦν καὶ παρα
[ ].[]
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