Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3285
(formerly typ/1426)

Λάϊε Λαβδακίδη, παίδων γένος ὄλβιον αἰτεῖς.
δώσω τοι φίλον υἱόν· ἀτὰρ πεπρωμένον ἐστὶ
σοῦ παιδὸς χείρεσσι λιπεῖν φάος· ὣς γὰρ ἔνευσε
Ζεὺς Κρονίδης, Πέλοπος στυγεραῖς ἀραῖσι πιθήσας,
οὗ φίλον ἥρπασας υἱόν· ὁ δ’ ηὔξατό σοι τάδε πάντα.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)
Tag(s) Reference to content of the book
Comment The text offered by Ambr. L 39 sup is slightly different from the type.
Bibliography

Primary

A. Pearson, 1967, Sophoclis fabulae, Oxford: 8-8*

Secondary

M. Tomadaki, E. van Opstall 2019, The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 19, 193-220: 204

Bibliography category to be determined
Number of verses 5
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki

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Identification
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Last modified: 2020-08-26.
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