Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18961
(formerly occ/2376)

	εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη· ἡ δ’ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἔστιν,
	εἰπὲ δ' ὅθεν προσέβης, καὶ ποῦ ὁδοιπορέεις.
	καὶ τί μέγα ζώειν τὸν αὐτίκα νεκρὸν ἐόντα
	ὁ χρόνος ἀπατέει· φύλλων ἔοικε φύσις.
	γαῖα βροτὸς καὶ ὕδωρ, τάδ' ἀπ' αὐτόφι εἰς τόδε δύνει,
	ὥς τε μάτην ὁ βίος καὶ ὅσα τις πονέει.

This is a partially unknown text. The numbers on the left are there for reference purposes only and do not necessarily correspond with the actual verse number.

Type(s)	[3147] Εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη, ἡ δ’ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἐστιν (6 verses)
Text source	R. Dawe, 1973, Studies on the Text of Sophocles. The Manuscripts and the Text (vol. 1), Leiden: 118
Text status	Text partially unknown
Date	1325
Manuscript	NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. II F 9 [1325]
Place in Manuscript	f. 167r
Contextual information	The epigram precedes Sophocles' Electra.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram
Subject(s)	Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Comment	Formentin (1995: 129) gives only the first words and refers to Dindorf (1852: 244).
Bibliography	Primary M. Formentin, 1995, Catalogus codicum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Neapolitanae (vol. 2), Rome: 129
Number of verses	6
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