---
title: Epigrams
title_greek: Ἐπιγράμματα
author: Theognis of Megara
eul_wid: bbs-ac
eul_aid: bbs
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/theognis-megara-epigrams-bbs-ac"
period: Archaic
dialect: Ionic Elegiac
domain: History
format: Verse
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Epigrams

*Ἐπιγράμματα*

**Author:** Theognis of Megara

**eul_wid:** `bbs-ac` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/theognis-megara-epigrams-bbs-ac)

## Text

### book 40.1

Μήποτε τὸν παρεόντα παρεὶς φίλον ἄλλον ἐρεύνα

### book 40

δειλῶν ἀνθρώπων ῥήμασι πειθόμενος.

### book 113.1

Οὐκ ἐθέλω πλουτεῖν, οὐκ εὔχομαι· ἀλλά μοι εἴη

### book 113

ζῆν ἐκ τῶν ὀλίγων μηδὲν ἔχοντα κακόν.

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