Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23996
(formerly occ/7947)

	αἰσχύλε τί φὴς τοὺς θεούς σου προσφέρ(εις)·
	πάσχοντας αἰσχρῶς ἐκ θεῶν ὁμοτρόπων,
	καὶ πῶς ἄρα λέληθας σαὐτὸν εἰς τέλος
	θεοὺς σεβάζων τοὺς παθητοὺς τὴν φύσ(ιν),
	καὶ μὴ δυνατοὺς ἐκφυγεῖν τιμωρί(ας).

Type(s)	[3436] Αἰσχύλε, τί φῇς; τοὺς θεούς σου προσφέρεις (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1276-1300
Manuscript	HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 18 [1276-1300]
Place in Manuscript	f. 111r
Palaeographical information	Written in three columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'. It is the second in a series of three book epigrams.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec18/0225/image
Bibliography	Primary D. Rasljic 2022, Two Greek Paratext Poems from the Manuscript Q No. 2 of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Philologia Classica, 17(1), 113-124: 121 L. Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov 2021, The Book Epigrams on Prometheus, Ascribed to John Tzetzes, ΣΧΟΛΗ, 15(2), 524-537: 527-528
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) 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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