Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19129
(formerly occ/2590)

	·:· εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη· ἡ δ᾽ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἐστιν·
	εἰπὲ δ᾽ ὄθεν προέβης κ(αὶ) ποῦ ὀδοιπορέεις
	καὶ τί μέγα ζώειν τὸν αὐτίκα νεκρὸν ἐόντα·
	ὁ χρόνος ἀπατέει· φύλλω ἔοικε φύσ(ις)·
	γαῖα βροτὸς καὶ ὕδωρ· τὰδ᾽ ἀπ᾽ αὐτόφιν εἰς τάδε δύνει·
	ὥστε μάτην ὁ βίος καὶ ὅσα τις πονέει:-

Type(s)	[3147] Εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη, ἡ δ’ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἐστιν (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 140 [13th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 37r
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns.
Contextual information	The epigram follows Orestes' list of characters.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Comment	Stornajolo (1895: 261) offers only the incipit.
Bibliography	Primary C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 261
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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