Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 27053
(formerly occ/11126)

	(...)υθος παλαιὸς \| ὡς ἄτλας νώτοις φέρ(ει)
	τὸν οὐ(ρα)νὸν \| κάτωθεν ἐκ γῆς ἀνέχων·
	σὺ \| γοῦν ἀκούων, θνῶθι τοῦτ' ἀ\|λληγόρως·
	ὄρος γὰρ ἄτλας λιβύ\|ης ἐν ἐσχάτοις·
	οὗ τὴν κορυ\|φὴν ἐκ νεφῶν κεκρυμμ(έν)ην, \|
	εἶναι δοκοῦσιν οὐ(ρα)νοῖς συνη\|μμένην·
	ἐντεῦθεν οὖν ἕλλησιν \| ἡ μυθουργία,
	ἄτλαντα νώτοις \| εἰσαεὶ πόλον φέρειν +

Type(s)	[6991] Μῦθος παλαιὸς ὡς Ἄτλας νώτοις φέρει (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2785 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 14r
Contextual information	The epigram is part of the scholia accompanying v.428 of Aischylos' 'Prometheus Bound'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Atlas
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10722851f/f18.item
Bibliography	Primary K. Dindorf, 1851, Aeschyli tragoediae superstites et deperditarum fragmenta. Scholia Graeca ex codicibus aucta et emendata (vol. 3), Oxford: 222-223
Number of verses	8
Related occurrence(s)	[26116] μῦθος παλαιὸ(ς), ὡς ἄτλ(ας) νώτοις φέρει [1375] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana I 47 sup. [1375] (f. 13v) (8 verses) (8/8) [27054] μῦθος παλαιὸς ὡς ἄτλας νώτοις φέρει [15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2787 [15th c.] (f. 18v) (8 verses) (8/8)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout 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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