{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1799.tlg017.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1799.tlg017.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1799.tlg017.local001","title":"Epigramma","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Euclid","authorityName":"EUCLIDES Geom.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1799-euclides-geom/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1799-euclides-geom/","editors":["Heinrich Menge"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Euclidis Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Leipzig","place":"Teubner","date":"1916","volume":"8","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":["Harvard College Library"],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/stream/euclidisoperaomn08eucluoft#page/186/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Euclid. Epigramma. ed. Heinrich Menge. Euclidis Opera Omnia, Teubner, Leipzig, 1916. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1799.tlg017.local001","excerpt":"Ἡμίονος καὶ ὄνος φορέουσαι οἶνον ἔβαινον, αὐτὰρ ὄνος στενάχιζεν ἐπ᾿ ἄχθει φόρτου ἑοῖο. τὴν δὲ βαρυστενάχουσαν ἰδοῦσ᾿ ἐρέεινεν ἐκείνη· μῆτερ, τί κλαίουσ᾿ ὀλοφύρεαι ἠύτε κούρη; εἰ μέτρον ἕν μοι δοίης, διπλάσιον σέθεν ἦρα, εἰ δὲ ἓν ἀντιλάβοις, πάντως ἰσότητα φυλάξεις. εἰπὲ τὸ μέτρον, ἄριστε γεωμετρίης ἐπίιστορ. Primus edidit Aldus in Florilegio 1503 (MM p. 9), deinde praeter reliquas Anthologiae editiones, uelut Henrici Stephani 1566 p. 493, Bachetus in Diophanto p. 370 sine Euclidis nomine (p. 349: „placet hoc loco elegantissima aliquot epigrammata proferre non iniucundas quaestiones de rebus arithmeticis continentia, quae nondum edita fuerunt, quaeque pridem e codice probatissimo Palatino excerpta tradidit nobis vir eruditissimus Claudius Salmasius“, et deinde p. 368; „his, quae nondum edita erant, epigrammatis subiicere libet quinque sequentia cum nostra interpretatione, ne quid ad…","divisions":[{"label":"Εὐκλείδου γεωμετρικόν.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1799.tlg017.local001/#tlg1799-tlg017-local001-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1799.tlg017.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1799.tlg017.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1799/tlg017/local001.json.gz"}}