Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 25331
(formerly occ/9356)

στίχοι τὴν ἔννοι(αν) τοῦ τῆς ἠλέκτρας δράματο(ς) ἐμπεριέχοντες
 
Λέαιναν ἣ δράκαιν(αν) ἀλλ οὐ μητέρα·
καὶ τόν σύνευν(ον) ἄνδρα τ(ὸν) π(α)τρ(ο)κτόνον,
ὁ τοῦ π(α)τρ(ὸ)ς τιμωρὸ(ς) ἐκτελῶν ὄπα·
τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ κράτιστον ἄσκευον μόνην,
κτανὼν, ἔθαλλ(εν) (ὡς) ὀνείρ(οις) τ(οῖς) πάλαι
εἶδε θανοῦσα πρ(ὶν) θάνη τελεσφόρα
Ἡ δ᾽ αὐταδέλφη χαρμον(ῆς) πεπλησμένη,
ἀφῆκε λυπρὸν πένθο(ς) ἀστεγὲς δάκρυ:+
Type(s) [3445] Λέαιναν ἢ δράκαιναν, ἀλλ’ οὐ μητέρα (8 verses)
Text source DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 13th-14th c.
Manuscript VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1332 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 48r
Palaeographical information The title and the initial are written in red ink.
Contextual information The epigram follows Sophocles' Electra.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Subject(s)
Bibliography

Primary

M. Tomadaki, E. van Opstall 2019, The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 19, 193-220: 208-201
Number of verses 8
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Transcriber(s)
Maria Tomadaki - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:

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