Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21623
(formerly occ/5468)

	Ἕκτορ ἀρήιον αἷμα. κατὰ χθονὸς ἤν (?) που ἀκούης·
	στῆθι καὶ ἄμπνευσον βαιὸν ὑπὲρ πατρίδος·
	ἴλιον οἰκεῖται κλεινὴ πόλ(ις), ἄνδρας ἔχουσα,
	σεῦ μὲν ἀφαυροτέρους· ἀλλ’ ἔτ’ ἀρηιφίλους·
	μυρμιδόνες δ’ οὐκ εἰσὶ. παρίστασο καὶ λέγ’ ἀχιλλεῖ·
	θεσσαλίους κεῖται ποσσὶν ὑπ αἰνεάδων:- +

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	1451-1475
Manuscript	PARMA - Biblioteca Palatina - parm. 1130 (HH. II. 27) [1451-1475]
Place in Manuscript	f. 222r
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Xanthopoulos (15th c.) - RGK: I.98, II.132 - VGH: 104.E - PLP: VIII.20814 (iatros)
Palaeographical information	The initial is written in red ink.
Contextual information	Written at the end of the Iliad. The epigram is the last in a series of three poems. It is followed by τέλος, written three times, once in brown ink and twice in red ink.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Achilleus Ares Hektor Homer (8th c. BC) Troia
Image source(s)	http://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3Awww.internetculturale.sbn.it%2FTeca%3A20%3ANT0000%3AN%3ACNMD0000242951&mode=all&teca=MagTeca+-+ICCU
Bibliography	Primary E. Martini, 1893, Catalogo di manoscritti greci esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane (vol. 1.1), Milan: 171 Secondary P. Eleuteri, 1993, I manoscriti greci della biblioteca Palatina di Parma, Milano: 62
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki 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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