Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22117
(formerly occ/5989)

εἰ καὶ δακρυόεις εὑριπίδη εἷλε σε πότμος,
καί σε λυκοραισταὶ | δεῖπνον ἔθεντο κύν(ες)·
τὸν σκηνῆ μελίγηρυν ἀηδόνα κόσμον ἀ|θην(ῶν)·
τ(ὸν) σοφίαις μουσάων μιξάμενον χιτῶνα:
ἀλλ’ ἔμελλ(ες) πε|λαῖον ὑπ’ ἡρίον ὡς ὰν ὡς λάτρις·
πιερίδων ναίης ἀγχίθι | πιερίδων:-
Type(s) [4538] Εἰ καὶ δακρυόεις Εὐριπίδη εἷλέ σε πότμος (6 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th c.
Manuscript FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 33 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 92v
Contextual information The epigram is the last in a series of three epigrams, preceding Euripides' Hecuba.
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s)
Comment Bandini (1768: 179) gives no text: 'Praecedunt quaedam Epigrammatum fragmenta in Euripidem, analphabete prorsus exarata'.
The scribe wax probably not conscious of the metrical nature of this text.
Image source(s) http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000621382&keyworks=plut.32.33#page/192/mode/1up
Bibliography

Secondary

A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 179
Number of verses 6
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Ilse De Vos, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Lotte van Olmen

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