Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22270
(formerly occ/6151)

	Πρῶτα μὲν ἐν νεμαία βρυαρὸν κατέπεφνε λέοντα:
	Δεύτερον ἐν λέρνη πολυαύχενον ἔκτανεν ὕδραν:
	Τὸ τρίτον αὖτ᾿ ἐπὶ τοῖς, ἐρυμάνθιον ἔκτανε κάπρον:
	Ὑψίκερων δ' ἔλαφον μετὰ ταῦτ᾿ ἤγρευσε τέταρτον:
	Πέμπτον δ᾿ ὄρνιθας στυμφαλίδας ἐξεδίωξεν:
	Ἕκτον δ' ἀμαζονίδος κόμισε ζωστῆρα φαεινόν:
	Ἕβδομον αὐγείου πολλὴν κόπρον ἐξεκάθηρεν. \|\|
	Ὄγδοον ἐκ θρήκης διομήδεος ἤλασεν ἵππους:
	Εἴνατον ἐκ κρήτης πυρίπνοον ἤλασε ταῦρον:
	Γηρυόνου δέκατον βόας ἤλασεν ἐξ ἐρυθείης:
	Ἑνδέκατον δ' ἀνάγει· κύνα κέρβερον ἀνήγαγεν ἐξ ἀΐδαο:
	Δωδέκατον δ' ἤνεγκεν ἐς ἑλλάδα χρύσεα μῆλα.:
	θεστίεω θυγατρῶν τρισκαιδέκατον πέλεν ἆθλος:

Type(s)	[3450] Πρῶτα μὲν ἐν Νεμέῃ βριαρὸν κατέπεφνε λέοντα (14 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 470 (coll. 824) [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 222r-222v
Person(s)	Scribe Georgios Tribizias (1451-1500) - RGK: I.73, II.94, III.123 - VGH: 85.B - PLP: XII.29291 (hiereus)
Palaeographical information	Initial letters of each line in red ink.
Contextual information	It precedes Sophocles' Trachiniae.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Herakles Kerberos
Comment	Mioni (1985: 260) gives no text, but refers to Anth. Gr. XVI.92.
Bibliography	Secondary E. Mioni, 1985, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Thesaurus Antiquus. Codices 300-625 (vol. 2), Rome: 260
Number of verses	13
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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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