Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26546
(formerly occ/10618)

	(…)
	χάριν βροτῶν γ(ὰρ) \| (…)
	(…) πῶς τὸ πῦρ ἐκεκλόφεις \|
	(...)ταυρωμ(έν)ος,
	τ(ὸν) ἐκβαλοῦντα \| (...)
	τῶ τοι κεραυνὸ(ς) ἐκ πολοῦ κατηγμ(έν)ος, \|
	(...) σε τὸν τάλαν,
	αἴαζε τοίνυν τοῦτο γ(ὰρ) \| (...)ρεστί σοι:

Type(s)	[3439] Οὐαί, Προμηθεῦ, κρᾶξον, οὐαί σοι μέγα (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 468 (coll. 653) [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 59r
Palaeographical information	Written in the upper margin of the folio. Ink partly vanished.
Contextual information	Written after a commentary on Aeschylus. Preceded by two more epigrams.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Prometheus Zeus
Image source(s)	http://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3A193.206.197.121%3A18%3AVE0049%3ACSTOR.240.10178&mode=all&teca=marciana&viewType=onepage&mediaType=image&objectIndex=126
Bibliography	Primary D. Rasljic 2022, Two Greek Paratext Poems from the Manuscript Q No. 2 of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Philologia Classica, 17(1), 113-124: 121 L. Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov 2021, The Book Epigrams on Prometheus, Ascribed to John Tzetzes, ΣΧΟΛΗ, 15(2), 524-537: 527-528 Secondary E. Mioni, 1985, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Thesaurus Antiquus. Codices 300-625 (vol. 2), Rome: 256
Number of verses	8
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Ilse De Vos, 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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