---
title: Culinary and Medical Dialogues
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα
author: "Philemon the Younger "
eul_wid: lig-aa
eul_aid: lig
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/philemon-younger-culinary-medical-dialogues-lig-aa"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Culinary and Medical Dialogues

*Ἀποσπάσματα*

**Author:** Philemon the Younger 

**eul_wid:** `lig-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/philemon-younger-culinary-medical-dialogues-lig-aa)

## Text

### book 1.1

ἐάσαθ’ οὕτως ὡς ἔχει. τὸ πῦρ μόνον

### book 1.2

ποιεῖτε

### book 1.3

τοῖς ὀπτοῖσι μήτ’ ἀνειμένον, τὸ γὰρ

### book 1.4

τοιοῦτ’ οὐκ ὀπτὸν ἀλλ’ ἑφθὸν

### book 1.5

ποιεῖ· μήτ’ ὀξύ, κατακάει γὰρ ὅς’ ἂν ἔξω λάβῃ[ln_5]τοῦτο πάλιν, εἰς τὴν σάρκα δ’ οὐκ ἐνδύεται. μάγειρός ἐστιν οὐκ ἐὰν ζωμήρυσιν ἔχων

### book 1.6

τις ἔλθῃ καὶ μάχαιραν

### book 1.7

πρός

### book 1.8

τινα, οὐδ’ ἄν

### book 1.9

τις εἰς τὰς λοπάδας ἰχθῦς ἐμβάλῃ· ἀλλ’ ἔστι

### book 1.10

τις

### book 1.11

φρόνησις ἐν τῷ πράγματι.

### book 2-3

[spk_β]τίς οὗτός ἐστ’; Β. ἰατρός. Α. ὡς κακῶς ἔχει ἅπας ἰατρός, ἂν κακῶς μηδεὶς ἔχῃ.[ln_2]. . . . . . . . . . . . μόνῳ δ’ ἰατρῷ τοῦτο καὶ συνηγόρῳ ἔξεστ’, ἀποκτείνειν μέν, ἀποθνῄσκειν δὲ μή.

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