Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22264
(formerly occ/6144)

	π(ερὶ) τ(ῆς) ἐνταῦθα ματαιότ(η)τος

	εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη ἡ δ’ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἐστιν
	εἰπὲ πόθ(εν) προέβ(ης) (καὶ) ποῦ ὁδοιπορέεις.
	(καὶ) τί μέγα ζώειν τ(ὸν) αὐτίκα νεκρ(ὸν) ἐόντα
	ὁ χρόνος ἀστατέει· φύλλω ἔοικε φύσ(ις)
	γαῖα βροτὸς καὶ ὕδωρ τὰ ἀπ’ αὐτόφ(ιν) εἰς τάδε \| δύνει
	ὥστε μάτην ὁ βίο(ς) (καὶ) ὅσα τ(ις) πονέει+

Type(s)	[3147] Εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη, ἡ δ’ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἐστιν (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 468 (coll. 653) [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 115v
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	Written before Sophocles' Electra.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram
Comment	Mioni (1985: 257) gives only the title of the epigram and he refers to Cougny IV 92.
Image source(s)	http://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3A193.206.197.121%3A18%3AVE0049%3ACSTOR.240.10178&mode=all&teca=marciana&viewType=onepage&mediaType=image&objectIndex=239
Bibliography	Secondary E. Mioni, 1985, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Thesaurus Antiquus. Codices 300-625 (vol. 2), Rome: 257
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) 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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