Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20496
(formerly occ/4161)

	στίχοι πολιτικοὶ τοῦ τζέτζου

	Πολύδωρον, ἑκάβης τὲ καὶ τοῦ πριάμου παῖδα,
	ὁ πολυμήστωρ ἔκτεινεν ὁ τ(ῶν) θρακ(ῶν) κατήρχ(ων)
	ἀφ’ οὗ τ(ὴν) τροί(αν) ἔμαθ(εν) ἕλλησι πορθηθῆναι·
	καὶ κτείν(ας) εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν ἔρρϊψε τ(ὴν) ἐκεῖσε·
	καίπερ λαβ(ὼν) παρὰ πατρὸς ὅπ(ως) αὐτὸν φυλάσσοι·
	ἑκάβ(ης) αἰχμαλώτου δὲ οὔσης ἐν χερρονήσω·
	ἐκεῖ γ(ὰρ) κ(αὶ) τὸ στράτευμα ὑπῆρχε τ(ῶν) ἑλλήν(ων)·
	ὄναρ φανεὶς πολύδωρος τῇ σῆ μητρὶ ἑκάβη·
	ὅπ(ως) αὐτὸν ἀπέκτεινεν ὁ πολυμήστωρ λέγει·
	κ(αὶ) τὰ λοιπὰ δὲ σύμπαντα λεπτομερεῖ τῶ λόγω.
	οὕτω κατ’ ἔπος λέγει (δὲ) διὰ τοῦ εὐριπίδου·
	ἥκω νεκρ(ῶν) κευθμῶνα τε κ(αὶ) πύλας ἀφεὶς σκότος·
	ἔκτοτε τοῖς φυγοῦσι δὲ δεινοῖς ἐξ ἀρρωστί(ας),
	ὡς ἐγερθεὶς ἐκ τ(ῶν) νεκρ(ῶν) λέγομεν τὰ τοιαῦτα·
	τοῖς μὴ μαθοῦσι γράφομεν, οὐ τοῖς μαθοῦσι ταῦτα:-

Type(s)	[4248] Πολύδωρον Ἑκάβης τε καὶ τοῦ Πριάμου παῖδα (15 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	01/09/1399-31/08/1400
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 142 [1340-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 10v
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns by a later hand.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes the Hecuba by Euripides.
Metre(s)	Decapentasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Euripides (480 BC - 406 BC) Hecuba Priamos
Comment	Stornajolo (1895: p. 274) gives only the incipit and the explicit.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.gr.142/0024
Bibliography	Primary C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 273-274
Number of verses	15
Related occurrence(s)	[21204] πολύδωρον ἑκάβης τε καὶ τοῦ πριάμου παῖδα [1375] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana I 47 sup. [1375] (f. 73v) (5 verses) (4/15) [31701] ολύδωρον ἑκάβης τε κ(αὶ) τοῦ πριάμου παῖδα [1275-1300] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1345 [1276-1325] (f. 98v) (15 verses) (14/15)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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