Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24528
(formerly occ/8489)

	στίχοι εἰς τὴν ἔννοιαν τοῦ τῆς ἠλέκτρας δράματος ἐμπεριέχοντος·+

	+λέαιναν ἢ δράκαιναν ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μ(ητέ)ρα
	κ(αὶ) τ(ὸν) σύνευνον ἄνδρ(α) τὸν π(ατ)ροκτόνον
	ὁ τοῦ π(ατ)ρὸς τιμωρὸς ἐκτελῶν ὄπα,
	τὴν τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ κράτιστον ἄσκευ(ον) μόνην,
	κτανὼν ἔθαλλ(εν) ὡς ὀνείροις τ(οῖς) πάλαι
	εἶδε θανοῦσα πρὶν θάν(...) τελεσφόρω(ς).
	ἡ δ᾽ αὐταδέλφη χαρμονῆς πεπλησμ(ένη),
	ἀφῆκε λυπρ(ὸν) πένθος ἀστεγὲς δά·

Type(s)	[3445] Λέαιναν ἢ δράκαιναν, ἀλλ’ οὐ μητέρα (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 40 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 48v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in two columns to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	Metrical hypothesis placed at the end of Sophocles' Electra.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Electra Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000387331&keyworks=plut.32.40#page/114/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary R. Dawe, 1973, Studies on the Text of Sophocles. The Manuscripts and the Text (vol. 1), Leiden: 117
Number of verses	8
Related occurrence(s)	[19355] λέαιναν ἣ δράκαιναν ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μ(ητέ)ρα [1276-1400] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 28, Cod. 25 [1276-1300] (f. 194v -- (alt.) f. 190v) (8 verses) (8/8) [20995] λέαιν(αν) ἢ δράκαιν(αν) ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μ(ητέ)ρα [1333] MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4617 (olim N.75) [1326-1500] (f. 69r) (8 verses) [25331] Λέαιναν ἣ δράκαιν(αν) ἀλλ οὐ μητέρα [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1332 [13th-14th c.] (f. 48r) (8 verses) (8/8)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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