---
title: Epigram
title_greek: Ἐπίγραμμα
author: Euclid of Alexandria
eul_wid: iaw-ao
eul_aid: iaw
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/euclid-alexandria-epigram-iaw-ao"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Technical Koine
domain: Mathematics
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Epigram

*Ἐπίγραμμα*

**Author:** Euclid of Alexandria

**eul_wid:** `iaw-ao` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/euclid-alexandria-epigram-iaw-ao)

## Text

### 1

Εὐκλείδου γεωμετρικόν.

### 2

Ἡμίονος καὶ ὄνος φορέουσαι οἶνον ἔβαινον, αὐτὰρ ὄνος στενάχιζεν ἐπ’ ἄχθει φόρτου ἑοῖο. τὴν δὲ βαρυστενάχουσαν ἰδοῦς’ ἐρέεινεν ἐκείνη· μῆτερ, τί κλαίους’ ὀλοφύρεαι ἠύτε κούρη; εἰ μέτρον ἕν μοι δοίης, διπλάσιον σέθεν ἦρα, εἰ δὲ ἓν ἀντιλάβοις, πάντως ἰσότητα φυλάξεις.

### 3

εἰπὲ τὸ μέτρον, ἄριστε γεωμετρίης ἐπίιστορ.

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