Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31504

	Ἕκτορ ἀρήιον αἵμα κατὰ χθονὸς ἠν που ἀκούης·
	στῆθι καὶ ἅμπνευσον βαιὸν ὑπὲρ π(ατρ)ίδος·
	ἴλιον οἰκεῖται κλεινὴ πόλις ἀνδρας ἔχουσα·
	σεῦ μὲν ἀφαυροτέρους· ἀλλ’ ἔτ’ ἀρηιφίλους·
	μυρμιδόνες δ’ οὐκ εἰσὶ παρίστασο καὶ λέγ’ ἀχιλλεῖ·
	θεσσαλίους κεῖται ποσσὶν ὑπαινεάδων:-

Type(s)	[4117] Ἕκτορ, Ἀρήιον αἷμα, κατὰ χθονὸς εἴ που ἀκούεις (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1476-1500
Manuscript	LONDON - British Library - Harley 5601 [1476-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 281v
Person(s)	Scribe Angelos - RGK: I.6 - VGH: 8.C - PLP: I.177
Palaeographical information	The initial is written in red ink.
Contextual information	This epigram is the last in a series of three epigrams, written at the end of Homer's Iliad.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Achilleus Ares Hektor Homer (8th c. BC) Troia
Image source(s)	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_5601_f281v
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(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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