Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20961
(formerly occ/4668)

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	Εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη· ἡ δ’ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἐστιν·
	εἰπὲ δ' ὅθεν προέβης καὶ ποῦ ὁδοιπορέεις·
	καὶ τί μέγα ζώειν γε τὸν αὐτίκα νεκρὸν ἐόντα·
	ὁ χρόνος ἀστατέει· φύλλῳ ἔοικε φύσις·
	γαῖα βροτὸς (καὶ) ὕδωρ· τὰ ἀπ’ αὐτόφ(ιν) εἰς τάδε δύνει·
	ὥστε μάτην ὁ βίος (καὶ) ὅσα τις πονέει:+

Type(s)	[3147] Εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη, ἡ δ’ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἐστιν (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1376-1400
Manuscript	MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana G 43 sup. [1376-1400]
Place in Manuscript	f. 196v
Palaeographical information	Initials written in majuscule.
Contextual information	It precedes the Electra.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram
Bibliography	Primary 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: 205-206 Secondary E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 1), Milan: 467
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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