Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21500
(formerly occ/5324)

Ἐννέα τ(ῶν) πρώτ(ων) λυρικ(ῶν) πάτρ(ην) γενεήν τε·
μάνθανε κ(αὶ) π(ατέρ)ας. κ(αὶ) διάλεκτρον? ἄθρει·
ὧν μιτυληναῖος μ(ὲν) ἔην γεραρώτερο(ς) ἄλλ(ων) |
ἀλκαῖος πρότερο(ς) (καὶ) ἠχικὸς αἰολίδ(ης)·
ἡ δ’ ἐπὶ τῶ ξυνὴν πάτρ(ην) φων(ήν) τε δαεῖσα,
σαπφὼ κληΐδο(ς) (καὶ) π(ατ)ρ(ὸ)ς εὐαγήρου? |
στησίχορο(ς) σικελὸ(ς) πάτρη δέ οι ἱμέρα (ἐστὶν),
εὐφήμου πατρὸ(ς) δωρικὸ(ς) ἁρμονίην.
ἱβηκο(ς) ἰταλὸ(ς) ἐκ ῥήγου ἠὲ μεσήνης |
ἠέλιδα τοῦ π(ατ)ρ(ὸ)ς δωρίδα δ’ ἡρμόσατο.
παρθενίου δὲ π(ατ)ρ(ὸ)ς λιγυρὸ(ς) πάις ἠετίην·
ἔδει μελπόμενο(ς) τίνο(ς) ἀνακρέων |
πίνδαρο(ς) ἦν θηβαῖος ἀτὰρ π(ατ)ρ(ὸ)ς σκοπελίνου·
δώριον αἰνήσ(ας) ἁρμονί(ων) ἐπέων.
κ(αὶ) σὲ σιμωνίδεω κίου δωρίστι λαλοῦντος |
τ(ὸν) π(ατέ)ρ’ αἰνήσ(ας) ἴσθι ἀριπρεπέα.
ἰσάδα? κ(αὶ) κεῖος ἔην γλενεῆ μελοποιὸ(ς)·
μίλωνο(ς) π(ατέ)ρο(ς) ἔπλετο βακχυλίδης |
Ἀλκὰν ἐν λυδοῖσι μεταπρεπει? ἀλλὰ δάμαντο(ς):
ἔστι κ(αὶ) ἐκ σπάρτης δωρίδο(ς) ἁρμονί(ης)·
Type(s) [4049] Ἐννέα τῶν πρώτων λυρικῶν πάτρην γενεήν τε (20 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th c.
Manuscript PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 1161 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. Iv
Palaeographical information This folio comes from another manuscript. Written in three columns to be read horizontally.
Contextual information The epigram is part of a series of poems after a Vita Pindari. It is followed by an ἀπόλλωνο(ς) χρησμὸ(ς) τιμαινέτω, in hexameters (inc. μοίρ(ας) ἱλάσκου), and other oracles in verse.
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Subject(s) Pindar (518 BC-438 BC)
Comment Astruc-Concasty (1960: 326) do not give the text but refers to Drachmann (1903: 10).
Image source(s) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110041443/f3.item
Bibliography

Secondary

C. Astruc, M. Concasty, 1960, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des manuscripts. Catalogue des manuscripts grecs. Le supplément grec. Tome 3: Nos 901-1371 (vol. 3.3), Paris: 326
Number of verses 20
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Transcriber(s)
Julián Bértola
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Julián Bértola

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