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Occurrence 31603

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	(...)νθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀν(θρώπ)ων γένει;
	τρύχη βία φάραγγι προσπεπηγμ(έν)ος:
	(...)ὸ πῦρ προμηθεῦ ὅ βροτοῖς ἐχαρίσω
	ὕλη πρὸς ἀκάματ(ον) εὑρέθη φλόγα·
	ὀργῆς κατὰ σου πρὸς θε(ῶν) πυρσουμ(έν)ης + .

Type(s)	[3434] Ἀνθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀνθρώπων γένει (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1344
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 7 [1344]
Place in Manuscript	f. 39r
Palaeographical information	The initials of verses 1 and 3 are missing.
Contextual information	The text is found at the end of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. It is part of a cycle of epigrams on this tragedy.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Prometheus
Bibliography	Primary L. Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov 2021, The Book Epigrams on Prometheus, Ascribed to John Tzetzes, ΣΧΟΛΗ, 15(2), 524-537: 527-528 Secondary S. Allegrini 1971-1972, Note di Giovanni Tzetzes ad Eschilo, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Perugia, 9, 221-233: 227 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: 120 M. Tomadaki, E. van Opstall 2019, The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 19, 193-220: 197
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Juan Bautista Juan López 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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