Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34879

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	+ ἀνθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀν(θρώπ)ων γένει,
	τρύχῃ βία φάραγγι προσπεπηγμένος·
	τὸ πῦρ προμηθεῦ ὃ βροτοῖς ἐχαρίσω,
	ὕλη πρὸς ἀκάμαντον εὐρέθη φλόγα·
	αἰσχύλε τὶ φὴς· τοὺς θεούς σου προ(σ)φέρεις
	πάσχοντας αἰσχρῶς ἐκ θεῶν ὁμοτρόπων;
	καὶ πῶς ἄρα λέληθας σαυτὸν εἰς τέλος,
	θεοὺς σεβάζων τοὺς παθητοὺς τὴν φύσιν,
	καὶ μὴ δυνατοὺς ἐκφυγεῖν τιμωρίας +

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	15th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2787 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 39r
Palaeographical information	Written in another color of ink than the main text.
Contextual information	The epigram, a combination of two well-known poems, is written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus Prometheus
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10722842g/f45.item
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: 120-121 L. Spyridonova, A. Kurbanov 2021, The Book Epigrams on Prometheus, Ascribed to John Tzetzes, ΣΧΟΛΗ, 15(2), 524-537: 527-528
Number of verses	9
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