---
title: "Perinthia, Fragments Known from Elsewhere"
title_greek: Περίνθια Ἀποσπάσματα
author: Menander of Athens
eul_wid: hps-ad
eul_aid: hps
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/menander-athens-perinthia-fragments-hps-ad"
lang: grc
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Attic
domain: Poetry
genre: "Comedy, Drama"
content_hash: "sha256:6c43e26776942d8f6461b3a933fc1ceef4c3a2f29ba26ee0ea8f5920ff1a108d"
content_modified_at: "2026-09-23"
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Perinthia, Fragments Known from Elsewhere

*Περίνθια Ἀποσπάσματα*

**Author:** Menander of Athens

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

## Text

### book 1.1

οἱ τῶν μετοίκων Ἀθήνησι

### book 1.2

προεστηκότες

### book 2

τὸ παιδίον 〈δ’〉 εἰσῆλθεν ἑψητοὺς φέρον.

### book 3.1

ὅστις

### book 3.2

παραλαβὼν δεσπότην ἀπράγμονα καὶ κοῦφον ἐξαπατᾶι θεράπων, οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅ τι οὗτος μεγαλεῖόν ἐστι διαπεπραγμένος, ἐπαβελτερώσας τὸν πάλαι 〈γ’〉 ἀβέλτερον.

### book 4.1

οὐδεμίαν ἡ γραῦς ὅλως κύλικα

### book 4.2

παρῆκεν ἀλλὰ πίνει τὴν κύκλωι.

### book 5.1

οὐπώποτ’ ἐζήλωσα

### book 5.2

πολυτελῆ νεκρόν· εἰς τὸν ἴσον ὄγκον τῶι

### book 5.3

σφόδρ’ ἔρχετ’ εὐτελεῖ.

### book 6

ὅς’ ἐστὶ μαλακὰ συλλαβὼν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως τὸ σύνολον ἐκπήδα, φίλος, θᾶττον.

### book 7

τὰ δ’ ἄλλ’ ἀνέπαφα σώματ’ οὐδὲ λη〈πτέα〉

### book 8.1

ἐπὶ τῶν ἁμαξῶν εἰσι

### book 8.2

πομπεῖαί τινες

### book 8.3

σφόδρα λοίδοροι.

### book 9

οὐδ’ αὐτός εἰμι σὺν θεοῖς ὑπόξυλος.

### book 10

Αἰάντειος γέλως

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