Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3469
(formerly typ/1593)

	Ὁ δ᾽ αὖ Ὀρέστης τὰς φρένας βλαβεὶς ὅλος
	σαφῶς παραινεῖ μὴ καθάπτεσθαι φόνου.

Title(s)	Εἰς τὸ τῶν Εὐμενίδων
Text source	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: 203
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Aeschylus Orestes
Tag(s)	Introduction to the subject Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	On Eumenides Orestes in turn, having entirely lost his mind clearly advises us not to resort to murders. Language English Source(s) DBBE (last accessed: 2021-11-13). In Eumenidas. Ille autem Orestes mente omnino laesa perspicue hortatur ne quis attingat caedem. Language Latin Source(s) E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 414
Comment	= Anth. Gr. Append. IV.84ε
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 83 E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 414
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[19380] ὁ δ᾽ αὖ ὀρέστης τὰς φρένας βλαβεὶς ὅλος [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 31, Cod. 8 [14th c.] (f. 128r) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 507: "In Aeschyli Eumenides"
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