Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26412
(formerly occ/10471)

	εἰς τὸν αὐτ(ὸν)

	Καλλιόπης ὀρφῆα κ(αὶ) οἱ αἴγριοι θανόντα
	ἔκλαυσαν ξανθαί μυρία βιστονίδας
	στικτοὺς δ᾿ἡμάξαντο βραχίονας. ἀμφὶ μελαίνη
	δευόμαι σποδιῆ θρηίκιον πλόκαμον·
	καὶ δ᾿αὐταὶ στοχεῦντι σὺν εὐ φόρμιγγι λυκείω
	ἔρρηξαν μοῦσαι δάκρυα πιερίδες·
	μυρόμεναι τὸν ἀοιδὸν· ἐπωδύραντο δὲ πέτραι
	καὶ δρύες· ἃς ἐρατῆ τὸ πρὶν ἔθελγε λύρη :-

Type(s)	[4503] Καλλιόπης Ὀρφῆα καὶ Οἰάγροιο θανόντα (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1451-1500
Manuscript	LONDON - British Library - Harley 1752 [1451-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 7v
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Triboles of Sparta < Laconia < Peloponnesos < Greece (1451-1500) - RGK: I.103, II.135, III.169 - VGH: 105.F - PLP: XII.29298
Palaeographical information	The title and the initial Κ are written in red ink.
Contextual information	This epigram is part of a collection of 24 epigrams from the Anthologia Palatina. The last four of these are book epigrams connected with the Orphic poems that follow from f. 8r onwards.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Apollon Music Nine Muses Orpheus
Comment	Nares (1808 - vol. 2: 196) only gives the title.
Image source(s)	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_1752_f007v
Bibliography	Primary R. Nares, 1808, Manuscripts in the Harleian Collection. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (vol. 2), London: 196
Number of verses	8
Related occurrence(s)	[20912] καλλιόπης ὀρφῆα καὶ οἰάγροιο θανόντα [1476-1500] MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4562 (olim N.24) [1464] (f. 8r) (8 verses) (8/8)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Sien De Groot Transcriber(s) Sien De Groot 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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