Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21241
(formerly occ/4989)

	Ἕκτορ ἀρήιον αἷμα κατὰ χθονὸς ἦν που ἀκούης,
	στῆθι καὶ ἄμπνευσον βαιὸν ὑπὲρ π(ατ)ρίδος·
	ἴλιον οἰκεῖται κλεινὴ πόλις ἄνδρας ἔχουσα·
	σεῦ μὲν ἀφαυροτέρους· ἀλλ’ ἔτ’ ἀρηιφίλους·
	μυρμιδόνες δ’ οὐκ εἰσὶ παρίστασο καὶ λέγ’ ἀχιλλεῖ·
	θεσσαλίους κεῖται ποσὶν ὑπαινεάδων:- +

Type(s)	[4117] Ἕκτορ, Ἀρήιον αἷμα, κατὰ χθονὸς εἴ που ἀκούεις (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1451-1500
Manuscript	MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 111 [1451-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 241v
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Xanthopoulos (15th c.) - RGK: I.98, II.132 - VGH: 104.E - PLP: VIII.20814 (iatros)
Contextual information	This poem is the third in a series of three epigrams, written at the end of the Iliad. All three epigrams are also to be found in the Anthologia Palatina (AP XVI.29, XVI.4 and IX.387). Hardt (1806: 19) distinguishes only two, by merging the first and the second epigram into one poem.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Achilleus Ares Hektor Homer (8th c. BC) Troia
Image source(s)	http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00130919/image_488
Bibliography	Primary I. Hardt, 1806, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum Bibliothecae Regiae Bavaricae. Cod. CVI-CCXXXIII continens (vol. 2), Munich: 19 Secondary K. Hajdú, 2003, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Codices graeci Monacenses 110–180 (vol. 3), Wiesbaden: 31
Number of verses	6
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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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