Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24808
(formerly occ/8798)

	στίχ(οι) ἡρωϊκοὶ εἰς τὴν ὑπόθεσιν τῆς δ’

	οὐκ ἀρετὰ κακὰ ἔργα ἡ ἀφραδίη (δὲ) μάλιστα·
	(καὶ) γ(ὰρ) ὁ πάνδαρος, ἧσιν ἀτασθαλίησι πιθήσ(ας),
	ὅρκια πιστὰ πάτησε· κ(αὶ) ἀμφοτέροις ἔριν ἐν ῆκ(εν)
	ἀτρείωνα βαλ(ὼν), ὅ γε πολλ(ῶν) γούνατ' ἔλυσ(εν):

Type(s)	[6575] Οὐκ ἀρετᾷ κακὰ ἔργα, ἡ ἀφραδίη δὲ μάλιστα (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1459
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 22 [1459]
Place in Manuscript	f. 41r
Palaeographical information	The epigram is not written by the main scribe of the manuscript.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Homer (8th c. BC) Menelaos
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000621414&keyworks=plut.32.22#page/87/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, 23-74: 74
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[26123] οὐκ ἀρετὰ κακὰ ἔργα ἡ ἀφραδίη δὲ μάλιστα [1301-1350] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana I 58 sup. [1301-1350] (f. 44r) (4 verses) (4/4)
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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