Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20173
(formerly occ/3813)

	+ ὁ τετραπλεύρου κοσμικ(ῆς) μοναρχίας.
	χειρὶ κρατήσας ξέρξης ἡνί(ας) πάσ(ας),
	φρεν' ἀπατηθεὶς ἐκ σοφοῦ περικλέους,
	εἰς γὴν κατεκάλυψε περσ(ῶν) τ(οὺς) γόνους.
	κἀκεῖνος δ' ἐξέφυγε τ(ῆς) τύχ(ης) κύβον,
	ἀναμεταξὺ τριχὸ(ς) ἁπαλωτάτης. +

Type(s)	[4081] Ὁ τετραπλεύρου κοσμικῆς μοναρχίας (7 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a microfilm of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 98 [1372]
Place in Manuscript	f. 206v
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus Xerxes I (519 BC - 465 BC)
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1770, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 3), Florence: 17* E. Rostagno, N. Festa 1893, Indice dei Codici Greci Laurenziani non compresi nel catalogo del Bandini, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica (SIFC), 1, 129-232: 151 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: 200-201
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Kristoffel Demoen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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