---
title: Fragments on Ocean and Death
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ὠκεανοῦ καὶ Θανάτου
author: Neoptolemus the Grammarian
eul_wid: kxc-aa
eul_aid: kxc
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/neoptolemus-ocean-death-kxc-aa"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine
domain: Grammar
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Ocean and Death

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ὠκεανοῦ καὶ Θανάτου*

**Author:** Neoptolemus the Grammarian

**eul_wid:** `kxc-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/neoptolemus-ocean-death-kxc-aa)

## Text

### 6

Ὠκεανός, τῷ πᾶσα περίρρυτος ἐνδέδεται χθών Οὐ γάρ μιν δεσμὸς περιβάλλεται ἠπείροιο, ἀλλ’ ἐς ἀπειρεσίην κέχυται· τό μιν οὔτι μιαίνει Λιποτροφίη Ὦ θάνατ’, εἴθ’ εἴης αὐτάγρετος, ὄφρ’ ἂν ἑλοίμην πρώτιστος· καί κ’ ἐχθρὸς ἐὼν πολὺ φίλτατος εἴης.

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