Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3257
(formerly typ/1391)

	Σοφοκλέους τύραννος Οἰδίπους ἴδε
	ἔσχηκε τέρμα φαῦσιν ὀμμάτων σβέσας,
	ἐπεὶ πατρὸς δράσας μὲν εὑρέθη φόνον,
	μητρὸς δ᾽ ἀθέσμους εἰς γάμους ἀφίκετο.

Text source	C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 268
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Oedipus Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Tag(s)	Completion of the book Division of the book Reference to content of the book
Comment	Text of Stornajolo (1895: 268) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[19102] σοφοκλέ(ους) τύραννος οἰδίπους ἴδε [14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 141 [14th c.] (f. 34r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	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.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 681: "In Oedipodem"
Permalink	https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/3257

Last modified: 2021-01-28.