Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22347
(formerly occ/6230)

	Ἔστι δίπουν ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ (...)τράπουν· οὗ μία φωνή \|
	καὶ τρίπουν· ἀλλάσσ(...) (...)
	ἑρπετά \| κινεῖται, ἀνά τ᾽ αἰθέρα κ(...) (...)
	ἀλλ’ ὁπόταν πλείστοισι \| ἐπειγόμενον ποσὶ βαίνῃ,
	ἔνθα τάχος γυίοισιν ἐπειγόμ(εν)ον πέλει αὐτοῦ:-

This is a partially unknown text. The numbers on the left are there for reference purposes only and do not necessarily correspond with the actual verse number.

Type(s)	[5396] Ἔστι δίπουν ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ τετράπον, οὗ μία φωνή (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text partially unknown
Date	May 1413
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - phil. gr. 197 [May 1413]
Place in Manuscript	f. 85r
Person(s)	Scribe Konstantinos Ketzas (14th c. - 15th c.) - PLP: V.11666
Contextual information	The epigram, introducing Euripides' Phoenissae, is preceded by a prose hypothesis and another epigram and followed by two more book epigrams, another prose hypothesis and the list of dramatis personae.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Comment	Hunger (1961: 309) does not give the exact text, but he only refers to AP XIV.64.
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_8699212
Bibliography	Secondary H. Hunger, 1961, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Codices Historici. Codices Philosophici et Philologici (vol. 1), Vienna: 309
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas 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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