Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34878

	στίχ(οι) παλαιοὶ εἰς προμ(η)θ(έα)

	κλέψας τὸ πῦρ παρέσχε τοῖς θνητοῖς γέρα
	καὶ κάμπτεται μάστιξι ταῖς διὸς τάλας
	ψευδώνυμον λέλογχε τὴν κλῆσιν μόν(ον)·
	προμηθίας δεῖται γὰρ ἣ προβουλίας.

Type(s)	[6213] Κλέψας τὸ πῦρ παρέσχε τοῖς θνητοῖς γέρα (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1475
Manuscript	MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4677 (olim N.47) [1326-1475]
Place in Manuscript	f. 152v
Person(s)	Scribe Konstantinos Laskaris (15th c.) - RGK: I.223, II.313, III.362 - VGH: 242.F - PLP: VI.14540
Palaeographical information	Written in the lower margin in two columns, to be read horizontally. The initial and the title are written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Prometheus Zeus
Image source(s)	https://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000243129&page=160
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, 122 L. Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov 2021, The Book Epigrams on Prometheus, Ascribed to John Tzetzes, ΣΧΟΛΗ, 15(2), 524-537: 528
Number of verses	4
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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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