# Epigrammata 75

Agathias Scholasticus, Epigrammata, Section 75. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/agathias-scholasticus/epigrammata/75

75.* (IX, 766.) Anth. Plan. p. 377. HSt. ἄδηλον Εἰς κωνωπεῶνα. πλέγμασι μὶν σκοπός ἐστι περισφίγξαι πετεηνῶν ἔθνεα, καὶ ταχινοὺς ἔνδοθεν ὀρταλίχους· αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ σεύειν ἐπιτέρπομαι, οὐδὲ καλύπτω ἔνδοθεν, ἀλλ’ εἴργω μᾶλλον ἐπειγομένους. οὐδέ μέ τις λήσειε, καὶ εἰ βραχὺς ἔπλετο, κώνωψ ἡμετέρης διαδὺς πλέγμα λινοστασίης. Ὀρνεαὶ που σώζω· μερόπεσσι δὲ λέκτρα φυλάσσω. ἦ ῥά τις ἡμείων ἐστὶ δικαιότερος;

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Agathias Scholasticus, Epigrammata, ed. B.G. Niebuhr. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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