---
title: Fragments of Myth and Exile
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα Μύθου καὶ Φυγῆς
author: Sotades of Maroneia Grammarian
eul_wid: its-aa
eul_aid: its
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/sotades-maroneia-myth-exile-its-aa"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: "Ionic (ia, frg)"
domain: Poetry
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments of Myth and Exile

*Ἀποσπάσματα Μύθου καὶ Φυγῆς*

**Author:** Sotades of Maroneia Grammarian

**eul_wid:** `its-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/sotades-maroneia-myth-exile-its-aa)

## Text

### book 1.1

Εἰς οὐχ ὁσίην

### book 1.2

τρυμαλιὴν τὸ κέντρον ὠθεῖς.

### book 2.1

Ὁ δ’ ἀποστεγάσας τὸ τρῆμα τῆς ὄπισθε λαύρης διὰ δενδροφόρου φάραγγος ἐξέωσε βροντὴν ἠλέματον, ὁκοίην ἀροτὴρ γέρων

### book 2.2

χαλᾷ βοῦς.

### book 3.1

Τίνα τῶν

### book 3.2

παλαιῶν ἱστοριῶν θέλετ’ ἐσακοῦσαι;

### book 4a.1

Σείων μελίην

### book 4a.2

Πηλιάδα δεξιὸν κατ’ ὦμον.

### book 4b.1

Ἔνθ’ οἱ μὲν ἐπ’ ἄκραισι

### book 4b.2

πυραῖς νέκυες ἔκειντο γῆς ἐπὶ ξένης, ὀρφανὰ τείχεα

### book 4b.3

προλιπόντες Ἑλλάδος ἱερῆς, καὶ μυχὸν ἑστίης

### book 4b.4

πατρῴης, ἥβην τ’ ἐρατὴν καὶ καλὸν ἡλίου

### book 4b.5

πρόσωπον.

### book 4c.1

Ζεὺς ὁ καὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου

### book 4c.2

πείρατα νωμῶν

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