Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19355
(formerly occ/2830)

	στί\|χοι

	λέαιναν ἣ δράκαιναν ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μ(ητέ)ρα
	(καὶ) τόν σύνευν(ον) ἄνδρα τὸν π(ατ)ροκτόνον
	ὁ τοῦ π(ατ)ρὸς τιμωρὸ(ς) ἐκτελῶν ὄπα
	τ(ὴν) τοῦ θεοῦ κράτιστον ἄσκευον μένην,
	κτανὼν ἔθαλλ(εν) ὡς ὀνείρ(οις) τ(οῖς) πάλαι·
	εἶδε θανοῦσα πρὶν θάνη τελεσφόρα.
	ἡ δ᾽ αὐταδέλφη χαρμον(ῆς) πεπλησμ(έν)η,
	ἀφῆκε λυπρὸν πένθο(ς) ἀστεγὲς δάκρυ.

Type(s)	[3445] Λέαιναν ἢ δράκαιναν, ἀλλ’ οὐ μητέρα (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1276-1400
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 28, Cod. 25 [1276-1300]
Place in Manuscript	f. 194v -- (alt.) f. 190v
Palaeographical information	Title, in the margin, in red ink. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram follows Sophocles' Electra.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Electra Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000620310&keyworks=plut.28.25#page/396/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 46 M. Tomadaki, E. van Opstall 2019, The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 19, 193-220: 208-210
Number of verses	8
Related occurrence(s)	[24528] λέαιναν ἢ δράκαιναν ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μ(ητέ)ρα [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 40 [14th c.] (f. 48v) (8 verses) (8/8) [20995] λέαιν(αν) ἢ δράκαιν(αν) ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μ(ητέ)ρα [1333] MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4617 (olim N.75) [1326-1500] (f. 69r) (8 verses) [25331] Λέαιναν ἣ δράκαιν(αν) ἀλλ οὐ μητέρα [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1332 [13th-14th c.] (f. 48r) (8 verses) (8/8)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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