Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3265
(formerly typ/1398)

	Ὀππιανὸς κλέος εἷλον ἀείδιον· ἀλλά με Μοίρης
	βάσκανος ἐξήρπασε μίτος, κρυερός τ’ Ἀΐδης με
	καὶ νέον ὄντα κατέσχε, τὸν εὐεπίης ὑποφήτην.
	Εἰ δὲ πολύν με χρόνον ζωοῖς μίμνειν φθόνος αἰνὸς
	εἴασ’, οὐκ ἄν τίς μοι ἴσον γέρας ἔλλαχε φωτῶν.

Title(s)	In Oppianum
Text source	E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 156
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Oppian of Korykos < Cilicia < Asia Minor < Turkey (2nd c.)
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book
Comment	= Anth. Gr. Append. II.400
Bibliography	Primary U. Bussemaker 1878, Scholia et paraphrases in Nicandrum et Oppianum, in F. Dübner (ed.), Scholia in Theocritum, Paris, 173-449: 243 C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 284
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[24924] ὀππιανὸς κλέος ἔσχον ἀοίδιμον. ἀλλά με μοιρ(ῶν) [1301-1325] HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 40 [1301-1325] (f. 87v) (5 verses) [19110] Ὀππιανὸς κλέος ἔσχων ἀοίδιμον· ἀλλά με μοιρῶν [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 148 [15th c.] (f. 80v) (5 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Delphine Nachtergaele, Cristina Cocola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Last modified: 2021-01-14.