---
title: Lyric Fragments on Life and Love
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Βίου καὶ Ἔρωτος
author: Praxilla of Sicyon
eul_wid: ccq-aa
eul_aid: ccq
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/praxilla-sicyon-lyric-fragments-ccq-aa"
period: Classical
dialect: Doric
domain: Poetry
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Lyric Fragments on Life and Love

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Βίου καὶ Ἔρωτος*

**Author:** Praxilla of Sicyon

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## Text

### book 1.1

κάλλιστον μὲν ἐγὼ λείπω φάος ἠελίοιο, δεύτερον ἄστρα

### book 1.2

φαεινὰ σεληναίης

### book 1.3

τε πρόσωπον ἠδὲ καὶ ὡραίους

### book 1.4

σικύους καὶ μῆλα καὶ ὄγχνας·

### book 2

ἀλλὰ τεὸν οὔποτε θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἔπειθον.

### book 3.1

Ἀδμήτου λόγον ὦ ἑταῖρε μαθὼν

### book 3.2

τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς φίλει, τῶν δειλῶν δ’ ἀπέχου γνοὺς ὅτι δειλῶν ὀλίγα χάρις.

### book 4.1

ὑπὸ παντὶ λίθωι

### book 4.2

σκορπίον ὦ ἑταῖρε

### book 4.3

φυλάσσεο.

### book 8.1

ὦ διὰ τῶν θυρίδων καλὸν ἐμβλέποισα

### book 8.2

παρθένε τὰν κεφαλὰν τὰ δ’ ἔνερθε νύμφα

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