---
title: "Fisherman's Sacrificial Rite"
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα
author: Theocritus of Syracuse
eul_wid: izc-ac
eul_aid: izc
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/theocritus-syracuse-fisherman-rite-izc-ac"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Doric Bucolic
domain: Poetry
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fisherman's Sacrificial Rite

*Ἀπόσπασμα*

**Author:** Theocritus of Syracuse

**eul_wid:** `izc-ac` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/theocritus-syracuse-fisherman-rite-izc-ac)

## Text

### unit_1

fr. 3

### book 3.1

κεἴ τις ἀνὴρ αἰτεῖται ἐπαγροσύνην

### book 3.2

τε καὶ ὄλβον, ἐξ ἁλὸς ᾧ ζωή, τὰ δὲ δίκτυα κείνῳ ἄροτρα, σφάζων ἀκρόνυχος

### book 3.3

ταύτῃ θεῷ ἱερὸν ἰχθύν ὃν λεῦκον καλέουσιν, ὃ γάρ θ’ ἱερώτατος ἄλλων,[ln_5]καί κε λίνα

### book 3.4

στήσαιτο καὶ ἐξερύσαιτο θαλάσσης ἔμπλεα.

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