Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21023
(formerly occ/4740)

διοσκορίδου
 
τύμβος ὅδ’ ἔστ’ ὤνθρωπε σοφοκλέους ὃν παρὰ μουσῶν
ἱρὴν παρθενίην ἱερὸς ὼν ἔλαχεν·
ὅς με τὸν ἐκ φλοιοῦντος ἔτι τρίβολον πατέοντα
πρίνινον ἐς χρύσεον σχῆμα μεθηρμόσατο·
καὶ λεπτὴν ἐνέδυνεν ἁλουργίδα· τοῦ δὲ θανόντος
εὔθετον ὀρχηστὴν τῇδ’ ἀνέπαυσα στόμα·
ὄλβιος ὃς ἀγαθὴν ἔλαχε στάσιν· ἡ δ’ ἐνὶ χερσὶ
κούριμος ἐκ ποίης ἡδε διδασκαλίης·
εἴτε σὸν ἀντιγόνην εἰπεῖν φίλον οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοις·
εἴτε καὶ ἠλέκτραν· ἀμφότεραι γὰρ ἄκρον·
Type(s) [4546] Τύμβος ὅδ’ ἔστ’ ὤνθρωπε Σοφοκλέος ὃν παρὰ Μουσῶν (10 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 1475
Manuscript MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4677 (olim N.47) [1326-1475]
Place in Manuscript f. 76v
Person(s)
Scribe
Konstantinos Laskaris (15th c.) - RGK: I.223, II.313, III.362 - VGH: 242.F - PLP: VI.14540
Palaeographical information Title and initial in red ink.
Contextual information The epigram is the last in a series of four epigrams and precedes Sophocles' Aiax.
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s)
Comment Iriarte (1769: 161): 'Tum sequuntur in Sophoclem Simonidis Octastichon, Erycii Hexastichon, Dioscoridis denique Decastichon, quae quidem omnia in supra dictae Anthologia Lib. III. Cap. 25. pagg. 396. et 397. occurrunt'.
De Andrés (1987: 225): '(f. 76v) tria epigrammata: Simonidis (Anthol. Pal., VII, 22), Erycii (ib. 36) et Dioscoridis (ib. 37)'.
Image source(s) http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000243129&page=84
Bibliography

Secondary
Number of verses 10
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri

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