Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21190
(formerly occ/4926)

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	εἰς αἰῶν(ας) ὅμηρε καὶ ἐξ αἰῶνος ἀείδη·
	οὐρανίης μούσης δόξαν ἀειράμενος·
	μῆνιν μ(ὲν) γὰρ ἄεισας ἀχιλλέος· αὐτὰρ ἀχαι(ῶν)·
	στρομβηδ(ὸν) νηῶν σύγχυσ(ιν) ἐν πελάγει·
	(...)μενόν τε πλάνησιν ὀδυσσέα ποικιλόβουλον
	τοῦ λέχος ἀσπασίως εἴσιδε πηνελόπη:~+

Type(s)	[4631] Εἰς αἰῶνας, Ὅμηρε, καὶ ἐξ αἰῶνος ἀείδῃ (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1276
Manuscript	MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana I 4 sup. [1276]
Place in Manuscript	f. 227r
Person(s)	Scribe Meletios son of Neilos (13th c.) - PLP: VII.17729
Palaeographical information	Written on two columns, to be read horizontally. Title written in red ink.
Contextual information	This poem is the sixth in a series of eleven epigrams.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Achilleus Homer (8th c. BC) Nine Muses Odysseus Penelope
Bibliography	Primary F. Maltomini 2015, Una silloge di epigrammi su Omero (e alcuni inediti bizantini), Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 75, 151-175: 172 F. Valerio 2016, Analecta Byzantina, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 16, 255-302: 269 Secondary K. Demoen 2019, Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext, in M. Kanellou, C. Carey, I. Petrovic (eds.), Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era, Oxford, 66-84: 80 E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 1), Milan: 541
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, 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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