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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421 PDFMarkdown

On the Rooster of Philip by Heraclides the Comic Poet

On the Rooster of Philip is verse by Heraclides the comic poet. The lines open on the Rooster. They are not a dialogue by the Academic philosopher Heraclides Ponticus.

Ἀλεκτρυόνα τὸν τοῦ Φιλίππου παραλαβὼν
ἀωρὶ κοκκύζοντα καὶ πλανώμενον
κατέκοψεν· οὐ γὰρ εἶχεν οὐδέπω λόφον.
ἕνα κατακόψας μάλα συχνοὺς ἐδείπνισεν
Χάρης Ἀθηναίων τόθʼ, ὡς γενναῖος ἦν.