Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 25228
(formerly occ/9253)

	τὸ τῆς σφιγγὸς αἴνιγμα

	Ἔστι δίπουν ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ τετράπον· οὗ μία φωνή
	καὶ \| τρίπον ἀλλάσσει δὲ φυὴν μόνην· ὅσσ’ ἐπὶ γαῖαν, \|
	ἑρπετὰ γίνοντ(αι) ἀνά τ᾽ αἰθέρα καὶ κατὰ πόντον·
	ἀλλ’ ὅτ(αν) \| πλείστοισιν ἐπειγόμενον, ποσὶ βαίη,
	ἔνθα μένος, \| γυίοισιν, ἀφαυρότερον πέλει αὑτοῦ.+

Type(s)	[5396] Ἔστι δίπουν ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ τετράπον, οὗ μία φωνή (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1415
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 52 [1415]
Place in Manuscript	f. 136v
Palaeographical information	The title and the initial are written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes a prose hypothesis of Euripides' Phoenissae.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Oedipus
Comment	Nousia (2016: 127): 'Sphinx's aenigma'.
Bibliography	Secondary F. Nousia, 2016, Byzantine Textbooks of the Palaeologan Period, Vaticano: 126
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Ilse De Vos The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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