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title: Phoenician Matters
title_greek: Φοινικικά
author: Lollianus the Erotic Writer
eul_wid: qek-ac
eul_aid: qek
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/lollianus-phoenician-matters-qek-ac"
period: Roman
dialect: Koine
domain: Fiction
format: Prose
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Phoenician Matters

*Φοινικικά*

**Author:** Lollianus the Erotic Writer

**eul_wid:** `qek-ac` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/lollianus-phoenician-matters-qek-ac)

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νι εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν θαψα[ ... ] μικρὸν ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ ἐκ[τρα‐] πείς. κεῖμαι δὴ ὑπὸ τῇ π[λα‐] τανίστῳ ἐκείνῃ καὶ μετ’ ἐμοῦ κόρη καλή, ἄμφω ἀνῃρημένοι.” ὁ δὲ Γλαυκέτης ἐκπλαγείς, ὥσπερ εἰκός, ἐφθέγξατο μὲν οὐδὲν πρὸς ταῦτα, ἐπένευεν δὲ μόνον καὶ [ἅμ]α ἤλαυνεν. ὁ δὲ νεάνι[σκος] ἠφανίσθη ἐπινεύσαν[τος, ὁ] δὲ Γλαυκέτης κατὰ κρά[τ]ος ἤλαυνεν καὶ ἅμα ἐπεστρέφετο, εἴ που αὖθις ἴδοι ἐκεῖνον, ἀλλ’ οὐκέτι ἔβλεπεν. ἀφικνεῖται οὖν νυκτὸς ἔτι ε[ἰ]ς τὴν κώμην καὶ ἦν παρ’ αὐτῇ ποταμός· τοῦτον διαβὰς ὁρᾷ τινα ἱππόστασιν ἀνεῳγμένην καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ στιβάδα εὐτελῆ καὶ φαύλην. καταδήσας οὖν πρὸς τῇ φάτνῃ τὸν ἵππον βαλὼν αὐτὸς ἐπὶ τῆς στιβάδ[ο]ς ἐπεχείρει καθεύδειν· κἀν τούτῳ κάτεισι γυνὴ διὰ κλίμακος ἣ ἦν ἐξ ὑπερῴ[ου ἄ]γουσα κάτω εἰς τὴν ἱπ[πόστασιν ... ] [Break in Text (point at which text breaks off for an unknown length)] [29]

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