---
title: Epigram
title_greek: Ἐπίγραμμα
author: "Plato the Comic Poet "
eul_wid: efq-ae
eul_aid: efq
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/plato-comic-epigram-efq-ae"
period: Classical
dialect: Attic Comedy
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Epigram

*Ἐπίγραμμα*

**Author:** Plato the Comic Poet 

**eul_wid:** `efq-ae` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/plato-comic-epigram-efq-ae)

## Text

### book 359.1.1

Ποίην τις βιότοιο τάμοι τρίβον; εἰν ἀγορῇ μὲν

### book 359.1.2

νείκεα καὶ χαλεπαὶ πρήξιες, ἐν δὲ δόμοις

### book 359.1.3

φροντίδες· ἐν δ’ ἀγροῖς καμάτων ἅλις, ἐν δὲ θαλάσσῃ

### book 359

τάρβος· ἐπὶ ξείνης δ’, ἢν μὲν ἔχῃς τι, δέος·

### book 359.5.1

ἢν δ’ ἀπορῇς, ἀνιηρόν. ἔχεις γάμον; οὐκ ἀμέριμνος

### book 359.5.2

ἔσσεαι. οὐ γαμέεις; ζῇς ἔτ’ ἐρημότερος.

### book 359.5.3

τέκνα πόνοι, πήρωσις ἄπαις βίος. αἱ νεότητες

### book 359.5.4

ἄφρονες, αἱ πολιαὶ δ’ ἔμπαλιν ἀδρανέες.

### book 359.5.5

ἦν ἄρα τοῖν δοιοῖν ἑνὸς αἵρεσις, ἢ τὸ γενέσθαι

### book 359.10

μηδέποτ’ ἢ τὸ θανεῖν αὐτίκα τικτόμενον.

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