Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26358
(formerly occ/10413)

	πρῶτα μὲν ἐν νεμέη βριαρὸν κατέπεφνε λέοντα:
	δεύτερον ἐν λέρνη πολυαύχενα ἔκτανεν ὕδραν·
	τὸ τρίτον αὖ ἐπὶ τοῖς, ἐρυμάνθιον ἔκτανε ταῦρον:
	ἀμφίκερων ἔλαφον, μετὰ ταῦτα ἤγρευσε τέταρτον:
	πέμπτον δ’ ὄρνιθας στυφελίδας ἐξεδίωξε:
	ἑκτον, ἀμαζονίδος κόμισε ζωστῆρα φαεινόν:
	ἕβδομον, αὐγείου πολλ(ὴν) κόπρον ἐξεκάθηρεν·
	ὄγδοον ἐκ κρήτης πυρίπνοον ἤλασε ταῦρον:
	ἐκ θρήκης ἔνατον διομήδεος ἤλασε ἵπποις:
	γηρυόνου δέκατον βόας ἤλασεν ἐξ ἐρυθείης:
	ἑνδέκατον δ' ἄγει κύνα κέρβερον ἐξ ἅδου:
	δωδέκατον δ’ ἤνεγκεν εἰς ἑλλάδα χρύσεα μῆλα:
	θεστίεω (?) θυγατρῶν τρισκαιδέκατον πέλειν ἆθλον:·

Type(s)	[3450] Πρῶτα μὲν ἐν Νεμέῃ βριαρὸν κατέπεφνε λέοντα (14 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1693 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 56r
Palaeographical information	Line 6: the same or a later hand has added 'H' supra lineam, above στυφελίδας. The first letter of every line is rubricated.
Contextual information	It immediately follows another epigram about Herakles.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Herakles Kerberos
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105096029/f125.image
Number of verses	13
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julie Boeten Transcriber(s) Julie Boeten 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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