Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24467
(formerly occ/8428)

	+λύσις τοῦ αἰνίγματος+

	+κλύθι καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσα κακόπτερε μοῦσα θανόντ(ων) \|
	φωνῆς ἡμετέρης σὸν τέλος ἀμπλακίης
	ἄν(θρωπ)ον κατέ\|λεξας ἡνίκα γαῖαν ἐφέρπει,
	πρῶτον ἔφυ \| τετράπους νήπιος ἐκ λαγόνων·
	γηραλέος δὲ \| πέλων, τρίτατον πόδα βάκτρον ἐπείγει,
	αὐχένα \| φροντίζων, γήραϊ καμπτόμενος+

Type(s)	[6371] Κλῦθι καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσα, κακόπτερε Μοῦσα θανόντων (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1351-1400
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 896 [1351-1400]
Place in Manuscript	f. 129v
Contextual information	The epigram is the third in a series of four poems that precede the Phoenician Women by Euripides.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Oedipus
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, 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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