Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 25393
(formerly occ/9422)

	κλῦθι κ(αὶ) οὐκ ἐθέλουσα κακόπτερε μοῦσα θανόντ(ων),
	φωνῆς ἡμετέρ(ης) σὸν τέλος ἀμπλακίης·
	ἄνθρωπον κατέλεξας· ὃς ἡνίκα γαῖ(αν) ἐφέρπει,
	πρῶτον ἔφυ τετράπ(ους)· νήπιος ἐκ λαγόν(ων)
	γηραλέος δέ πέλων, τρίτατον πόδα βάκτρ(ον) ἐρείδει·
	αὐχένα φορτίζων· γήραϊ καμπτόμ(εν)ος:

Type(s)	[6371] Κλῦθι καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσα, κακόπτερε Μοῦσα θανόντων (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1326-1500
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 142 [1326-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 121v
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns.
Contextual information	The epigram is embedded in a prose hypothesis on Euripides' Phoenissae. ἡρωελεγεῖοι in margine
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Oedipus
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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