Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24469
(formerly occ/8430)

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	Εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη· ἡ δ᾽ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἐστιν· \|
	εἰπὲ δ' ὅθ(εν) προέβης· καὶ ποῦ ὁδοιπορέεις· \|
	κ(αὶ) τί μέγα ζώειν τὸν αὐτίκα νεκρὸν ἐόντα· \|
	Ὁ χρόνος ἀπατέει· φύλλων ἔοικε φύσις· \|
	Γαῖα· βροτὸς· κ(αὶ) ὕδωρ· τάδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸ σφιν τάδε \| δύνει·
	ὥστε μάτην ὁ βίος· καὶ ὅσα τίς πονέει:+

Type(s)	[3147] Εἰπὲ ποῦ ἡ χθὲς ἔβη, ἡ δ’ αὔριον εἰπὲ ποῦ ἐστιν (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1491-1500
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Palat. gr. 139 [1491-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 158r
Person(s)	Scribe Emmanuel Zacharides (15th-16th c.) - RGK: I.114, II.146, III.189 - VGH: 118.G - PLP: III.6498
Palaeographical information	The title and the initial are written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Sophocles' Electra and precedes the hypothesis of Oedipus Tyrannus.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Oedipus Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Image source(s)	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/bav_pal_gr_139/0325
Bibliography	Primary E. Stevenson, 1885, Codices manuscripti Palatini Graeci, Rome: 71 Secondary Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Bibliotheca Palatina digital (last accessed: 2020-03-26). https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/de/bpd/virtuelle_bibliothek/codpalgraec/beschreibungen/bav_pal_gr_139.html
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki 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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