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

# Fragments of Hero Known Elsewhere

*Ἀποσπάσματα τοῦ Ἥρωος*

**Author:** Menander of Athens

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

## Text

### book 1.1

νῦν δὲ τοῖς ἐξ ἄστεως κυνηγέταις ἥκουσι

### book 1.2

περιηγήσομαι τὰς ἀχράδας.

### book 2.1

δέσποιν’, ἔρωτος οὐδὲν ἰσχύει

### book 2.2

πλέον οὐδ’ αὐτὸς ὁ κρατῶν 〈τῶν〉 ἐν οὐρανῶι θεῶν Ζεύς, ἀλλ’ ἐκείνωι πάντ’ ἀναγκασθεὶς

### book 2.3

ποεῖ.

### book 3

ἐχρῆν γὰρ εἶναι τὸ καλὸν εὐγενέστατον, τὸν ἐλεύθερον δὲ πανταχοῦ φρονεῖν μέγα.

### book 4.1

χοῦς κεκραμένου οἴνου· λαβὼν ἔκπιθι

### book 4.2

τοῦτον.

### book 5

ἐπεφαρμάκευσο, γλυκύτατ’, ἀναλυθεὶς μόλις.

### book 6.1

εὖ ἴσθι, κἀγὼ τοῦτο

### book 6.2

συγχωρήσομαι.

### book 7.1

τῶν δὲ παιδισκῶν

### book 7.2

τινι [para]δούς

### book 7.3

παρὰ τῶι Μενάνδρωι ἐν τῶι Ἥρωι.

### book 8

ὦ δυστυχής, εἰ μὴ βαδιεῖ.

### book 10

οὐπώποτ’ ἠράσθης, Γέτα;

### book 10

[spk_(γε)](Γε) οὐ γὰρ ἐνεπλήσθην.

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