Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21024
(formerly occ/4741)

	ἀντιπάτρ(ου) εἰς αἰσχύλ(ου)·

	Ὁ τραγικ(ὸν) φώνημα καὶ ὀφρυόεσσαν ἀοιδὴν
	πυργώσας στιβαρῇ πρῶτ(ον) ἐν εὐεπίῃ
	αἰσχύλος ειὐφορίωνος ἐλευσινίης ἑκὰς αἴης
	κεῖτ(αι) κυδαίν(ων) σήματι ταιναρίην

Type(s)	[4548] Ὁ τραγικὸν φώνημα καὶ ὀφρυόεσσαν ἀοιδὴν (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1326-1375
Manuscript	MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4677 (olim N.47) [1326-1475]
Place in Manuscript	f. 135r
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. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus Sikelia
Comment	De Andres (1987: 225): '(f. 135) (...) epigramma Antipatri (Anth. Pal., VII, 39)'. Iriarte (1769: 162): 'In extrema huius folii adversi pagina subscriptum Constantini Lascaris manu legas Antipatri Tetrastichon in Aeschylum, incipiens Ο τραγικὸν φώνημα, quod in Anthologia occurrit Lib. III Cap. 25. pag. 393'.
Image source(s)	http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000243129&page=142
Bibliography	Primary J. Iriarte, 1769, Regiae Bibliothecae Matritensis codices graeci mss., Madrid: 162 Secondary G. de Andrés Martínez, 1987, Catálogo de los códices griegos de la Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid: 225
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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