Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24806
(formerly occ/8796)

	ὑπόθεσις τ(ῆς) Γ’ διὰ στίχ(ων) ἡρωϊκ(ῶν)

	ἄνδρε δύω κρατερὼ κ(αὶ) ἐν ἡγεμόνεσιν ἀρίστω
	ἤτοι ὁ μ(ὲν) τρώ(ων), ὁ δ' ἀχαι(ῶν) χαλκοχιτών(ων)
	κάλλει ἀμφ' ἑλένης μεμάασι δόρεσσι μάχεσθ(αι)·
	ὥς ἄρα ἀφραδίη μερόπ(ων) φρέν(ας) ὤλεσε πάμπαν
	ὥστ' ἀφροδίτης λυσιμελοῦς μόρον ἀντιφέρεσθαι
	καὶ μαλακ(ῶν) χαρίτων γλυκερὴν φθινύθειν αἰῶνα:-

Type(s)	[6574] Ἄνδρε δύω κρατερὼ καὶ ἐν ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἀρίστω (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1451-1500
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 22 [1459]
Place in Manuscript	f. 34r
Palaeographical information	It is not written by the main scribe of the manuscript.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aphrodite Helen Homer (8th c. BC) Menelaos Paris Three Graces
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000621414&keyworks=plut.32.22#page/73/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary F. Pontani 2005, Il mito, la lingua, la morale: tre piccole introduzioni a Omero, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, 133(1), 23-74: 73
Number of verses	6
Related occurrence(s)	[26120] ἄνδρε δύω κρατερὼ καὶ ἐν ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἀρίστω [1301-1350] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana I 58 sup. [1301-1350] (f. 32v) (6 verses) (6/6)
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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