---
title: Fragments of Carthaginians Known Elsewhere
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα Καρχηδονίων
author: Menander of Athens
eul_wid: hps-ac
eul_aid: hps
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/menander-athens-carthaginians-fragments-hps-ac"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments of Carthaginians Known Elsewhere

*Ἀποσπάσματα Καρχηδονίων*

**Author:** Menander of Athens

**eul_wid:** `hps-ac` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/menander-athens-carthaginians-fragments-hps-ac)

## Text

### book 1.1

ἐπιθυμιάσας τῶι Βορέαι 〈λιβαν〉ίδιον ὀψάριον οὐδὲν ἔλαβον· ἑψήσω

### book 1.2

φακῆν.

### book 2.1

αὑτὸν γὰρ οὐθεὶς οἶδε

### book 2.2

τοῦ ποτ’ ἐγένετο, ἀλλ’ ὑπονοοῦμεν πάντες ἢ πιστεύομεν.

### book 3

ἄιδοντα λιτυέρσην ἀπ’ ἀρίστου τέως.

### book 4.1

τὸ καλῶς ἔχον

### book 4.2

που κρεῖττόν ἐστι καὶ νόμου.

### book 5

ἀσκοπυτίνη·

### book 6

ὁ μέσατος·

### book 7.1

χρεία διδάσκει κἂν ἄμουσος ἦι

### book 7.2

σοφὸν Καρχηδόνιον.

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