Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24227
(formerly occ/8187)

	Homericum epitaphiu(m)

	εἰς αἰῶνας ὅμηρε καὶ ἐξ αἰῶνος ἄειδε,
	οὐρανίης μούσης δόξαν ἀειράμενος,
	μῆνιν μὲν γὰρ ἄεισας ἀχιλλέος. αὐτὰρ ἀχαιῶν
	στρομβηδὸν νηῶν σύγχυσιν ἐν πελάγει,
	τειρόμενόν τε πλάνῃσιν ὀδυσσέα ποικιλόβουλον
	τοῦ λέχος ἀσπασίως εἴσιδε πηνελόπη:-

Type(s)	[4631] Εἰς αἰῶνας, Ὅμηρε, καὶ ἐξ αἰῶνος ἀείδῃ (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1326-1375
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. app. IX 2b [1326-1375]
Place in Manuscript	f. 375v
Person(s)	Scribe Leontios Pilatos
Palaeographical information	The epigram is accompanied by interlinear glossae in Latin.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Achilleus Homer (8th c. BC) Nine Muses Odysseus Penelope
Bibliography	Primary F. Maltomini 2015, Una silloge di epigrammi su Omero (e alcuni inediti bizantini), Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 75, 151-175: 157, 172 F. Valerio 2016, Analecta Byzantina, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 16, 255-302: 269
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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