---
title: Fragments on Human Follies
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἀνθρωπίνων Μωριῶν
author: "Sosicrates the Comic Poet "
eul_wid: kyq-aa
eul_aid: kyq
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/sosicrates-human-follies-kyq-aa"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: "Attic (com, frg)"
domain: Comedy
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Human Follies

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἀνθρωπίνων Μωριῶν*

**Author:** Sosicrates the Comic Poet 

**eul_wid:** `kyq-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/sosicrates-human-follies-kyq-aa)

## Text

### book 1.1

ὅταν γάρ, οἶμαι, λευκὸς ἄνθρωπος, παχύς, ἀργός, λάβῃ δίκελλαν εἰωθὼς

### book 1.2

τρυφᾶν

### book 1.3

πεντεστάτηρον, γίνεται τὸ πνεῦμ’ ἄνω.

### book 2.1

λεπτὴ δὲ κυρτοῖς ἐγγελῶσα κύμασιν αὔρα, κόρη

### book 2.2

Σκείρωνος, ἡσύχῳ ποδὶ προσῆγε

### book 2.3

πρᾴως καὶ καλῶς τὸν κάνθαρον.

### book 3.1

ἀγαθοὶ δὲ τὸ κακόν ἐσμεν ἐφ’ ἑτέρων ἰδεῖν, αὐτοὶ δ’ ὅταν

### book 3.2

ποιῶμεν οὐ γινώσκομεν.

### book 4.1

ὅταν

### book 4.2

ποθεῖν λέγῃ σε καὶ στέργειν γυνή, φοβοῦ παρ’ αὐτῆς

### book 4.3

πλείον’ ὧν λέγει κακά.

### book 5.1

ἡ τῶν κολάκων εὔνοια καθάπερ ἐκ

### book 5.2

τροπῆς

### book 5.3

φεύγει τὰς ἀτυχίας.

### book 7

ἀμφίας

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