Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19377
(formerly occ/2859)

	+ δίστιχα παλαιὰ εἰς τὰ τοῦ αἰσχύλου δράματα:

	+ δεινοπροσωπήσασα τέμνεται ξίφει,
	δυὰς ἀδελφῶν ἡ μιαιφονοτάτη:

Type(s)	[3463] Δεινοπροσωπήσασα τέμνεται ξίφει (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 epigram, as well as the title, is repeated twice on the same folio. In this first occurrence we find a spelling mistake: μιαιφονοτάτη.
Contextual information	The epigram is the first in a series of six epigrams, written after Aischylos' tragedies.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus
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
Related occurrence(s)	[28632] δεινοπροσωπήσασα τέμνεται ξίφει [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 31, Cod. 8 [14th c.] (f. 128r) (2 verses) (2/2) [19514] δεινοπροσωπήσασα τέμνεται ξίφη [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 91, Sup. 5 [14th c.] (f. 75v) (2 verses) (2/2)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, 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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