# Ἐπιστολαί. Διαλέξεις. α

Philostratus the Athenian, Ἐπιστολαί. Διαλέξεις., Ἐπιστολαί. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philostratus-the-athenian/text-2/%CE%B1

τὰ ῥόδα ὥσπερ πτεροῖς τοῖς φύλλοις ἐποχούμενα ἐλθεῖν παρὰ σὲ σπουδὴν ἐποιήσαντο. ὑπόδεξαι αὐτὰ εὐμενῶς, ἢ ὡς Ἀδώνιδος ὑπομνήματα, ἢ ὡς Ἀφροδίτης βαφήν, ἢ ὡς γῆς ὄμματα. ἀθλητῇ μὲν οὖν κότινος πρέπει καὶ βασιλεῖ μεγάλῳ ἡ ὀρθὴ τιάρα καὶ στρατιώτῃ λόφος, καλῷ δὲ μειρακίῳ ῥόδον καὶ διὰ συγγένειαν εὐωδίας καὶ διὰ τὸ οἰκεῖον τῆς χροιᾶς. περιθήσῃ δὲ οὐ σὺ τὰ ῥόδα, ἀλλʼ αὐτὰ σέ.

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Philostratus the Athenian, Ἐπιστολαί. Διαλέξεις., ed. Carl Ludwig Kayser. 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0638.tlg006.local001/.