Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34000

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	Ἕκτορ ἀρήιον αἷμα κατὰ χθονὸς ἢν που ἀκούης
	στῆθι καὶ ἄμπνευσον βαιὸν ὑπὲρ π(ατ)ρίδος·
	ἴλιον οἰκεῖται κλεινὴ πόλις ἄνδρας ἔχουσα·
	σεῦ μὲν ἀφαυροτέρους ἀλλ’ ἔτ’ ἀρηφίλους·
	μυρμηδόνες δ’ οὐκ εἰσὶ παρίστασο καὶ λέγ’ ἀχιλλεῖ·
	θεσσαλίους κεῖται ποσὶν ὑπ’ αἰνεάδων: +

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	15th c.
Manuscript	LONDON - British Library - Harley 5693 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 303v
Person(s)	Scribe Manouel Doukas Atrapes (15th c.) - RGK: I.246, II.338, III.407 - VGH: 275.B - PLP: I.1654 (grammatikos)
Palaeographical information	The initial is written in red ink. Added in the 15th century by Manouel Doukas Atrapes.
Contextual information	The epigram is the last in a series of three poems, written at the end of the Iliad.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
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_5693_f303v
Bibliography	Secondary D. Speranzi, 2016, Omero, i cardinali e gli esuli. Copisti greci di un manoscritto di Stoccarda, Madrid: 53
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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