Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19376
(formerly occ/2858)

	+ δίστιχα παλαιὰ εἰς τὰ τοῦ αἰσχύλου δράματα: + εἰς τὸ προμηθέ(ως)

	ὁ μὲν προμηθεὺς δοὺς δίκην καθὰ θέμ(ις),
	δείκνυσιν ἡμῖν ὡς κακὸν συλᾶν μέγα:-

Type(s)	[3461] Ὁ μὲν Προμηθεὺς δοὺς δίκην, καθὰ θέμις (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 31, Cod. 8 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 128r
Palaeographical information	The second part of the title is written in the right margin.
Contextual information	The epigram is the second in a series of six epigrams, written after Aischylos' tragedies.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus Prometheus
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000621006&keyworks=plut.31.08#page/263/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 83 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: 203
Number of verses	2
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Maria Tomadaki, 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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