---
title: Fragments of the Well and the Dog
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα τοῦ Φρέατος καὶ τοῦ Κυνός
author: Lysippus the Comic Poet
eul_wid: dso-aa
eul_aid: dso
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/lysippus-comic-well-dog-dso-aa"
period: Classical
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments of the Well and the Dog

*Ἀποσπάσματα τοῦ Φρέατος καὶ τοῦ Κυνός*

**Author:** Lysippus the Comic Poet

**eul_wid:** `dso-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/lysippus-comic-well-dog-dso-aa)

## Text

### book 1.1

[spk_α]Α. Ἕρμων. ΕΡΜ. τί ἔστι; Α. πῶς ἔχομεν; ΕΡΜ. τί δ’ ἄλλο γ’ ἢ ὁ πατὴρ ἄνωθεν ἐς τὸ φρέαρ, ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν, ὥσπερ τὸν οἶνον

### book 1.2

τοῦ θέρους καθεῖκε νώ.

### book 2

βλαύτῃ, κοθόρνῳ, Θετταλίδι

### book 3

ἀλλὰ τρίμιτός ἐστι πῖλος.

### book 4

οὐδ’ ἀνακνάψας καὶ θειώσας τὰς ἀλλοτρίας ἐπινοίας

### book 5

αὐτοῖς αὐλοῖς ὁρμᾷ καὶ γλωττοκομείῳ.

### book 7

εἰ μὴ τεθέασαι τὰς Ἀθήνας, στέλεχος εἶ, εἰ δὲ τεθέασαι μὴ τεθήρευσαι δ’, ὄνος, εἰ δ’ εὐαρεστῶν ἀποτρέχεις, κανθήλιος.

### book 8

κύων δέ τις ἐβόα δεδεμένος ἔνδον ὥσπερ Βούδιος.

### book 9.1

ἀλλὰ δᾷδας ἡμμένας μοι

### book 9.2

ταχὺ δότω

### book 9.3

τις ἔνδοθεν, καὶ κόρους

### book 9.4

πλεκτοὺς ἀκραιφνεῖς μυρρίνης.

### book 10

σάμακα

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