---
title: Fragments on Craft and Fortune
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Τέχνης καὶ Τύχης
author: Hipparchus the Comic Poet
eul_wid: jns-ab
eul_aid: jns
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/hipparchus-comic-craft-fortune-jns-ab"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Craft and Fortune

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Τέχνης καὶ Τύχης*

**Author:** Hipparchus the Comic Poet

**eul_wid:** `jns-ab` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/hipparchus-comic-craft-fortune-jns-ab)

## Text

### book 1.1

Προσέχεις

### book 1.2

τι τούτῳ τῷ στρατιώτῃ; ποῦ δ’ ἔχει ἀργύριον οὗτος; οὐδαμόθεν, εὖ οἶδ’ ἐγώ, ἀλλ’ ἢ δαπίδιον ἓν ἀγαπητὸν

### book 1.3

ποικίλον, Πέρσας ἔχον καὶ γρῦπας ἐξώλεις

### book 1.4

τινάς

### book 1.1

[ln_5][spk_β]τῶν

### book 1.2

Περσικῶν. Β. ἐς κόρακας, ὦ μαστιγία. Α. καὶ κόνδυ καὶ ψυκτῆρα καὶ κυμβίον.

### book 1.1

Πολύ γ’ ἐστὶ πάντων κτῆμα

### book 1.2

τιμιώτατον ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποισιν εἰς τὸ ζῆν τέχνη. τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλα καὶ πόλεμος καὶ μεταβολαί τύχης ἀνήλως’, ἡ τέχνη δὲ σώζεται.

### book 1.1

[spk_β]Ὁ λαβρώνιος δ’ ἔσθ’ οὗτος ὄρνις; Β. Ἡράκλεις, ποτήριον

### book 1.2

χρυσοῦς διακοσίους ἄγον. Α. ὢ περιβοήτου, φιλτάτη, λαβρωνίου.

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