Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3815
(formerly typ/1918)

Τὸ δρᾶμα τοῦτο τὴν ταφὴν Πολυδώρου,
Πολυξένης τε τὴν σφαγὴν διαγράφει,
καὶ τοῦ Πολυμήστορος ὀμμάτων δίκην,
οἵαν δεδρακὼς εὗρεν ἂντιμισθίαν.
Text source S. Cyrillus, 1832, Codices graeci mss Regiae Bibliothecae Borbonicae (vol. 2), Napels: 147
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s) Praefatio / programma
Translation(s) Haecce fabula sepulturam Polydori,
Polyxenaeque occisionem describit,
Tum Polymestoris oculorum poenam,
Qualem pro factis suis rependit.
Language
Latin
Source(s)
S. Cyrillus, 1832, Codices graeci mss Regiae Bibliothecae Borbonicae (vol. 2), Napels: 147
Bibliography

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: 214
Number of verses 4
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Lev Shadrin, Maria Tomadaki

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 764: "Argumentum Hecubae Euripidis"
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