Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3997
(formerly typ/2090)

Υἱὲ Μέλητος, Ὅμηρε, σὺ γὰρ κλέος Ἑλλάδι πάσῃ
καὶ Κολοφῶνι πάτρῃ θῆκας ἐς ἀΐδιον,
καὶ τάσδ’ ἀντιθέῳ ψυχῇ γεννήσαο κούρας
δισσὰς ἐκ στηθέων γραψάμενος σελίδας·
ὑμνεῖ δ’ ἡ μὲν νόστον Ὀδυσσῆος πολύπλαγκτον,
ἡ δὲ τὸν Ἰλιακὸν Δαρδανιδῶν πόλεμον.
Title(s)
  • Εἰς τὰς Ὁμηρικὰς δύο βίβλους
  • In duos libros Homeri
Text source H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. XII-XVI (vol. 4), München: 460-461
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Subject(s)
Tag(s)
Translation(s)
  • Homer, son of Meles, thou hast won eternal glory for Hellas and thy fatherland Colophon, and these two daughters didst thou beget by thy divine soul, writing from thy heart the twain tablets. The one sings the many wanderings of Odysseus in his homecoming, and the other the Trojan war.
    Language
    English
    Source(s)
    W. Paton, 1918, The Greek Anthology. Books 13-16 (vol. 5), Cambridge: 335
  • Homère fils de Mélès, la Grèce entière et Colophon, ta patrie, tu les couvres de gloire, à jamais. Et voici les deux filles, âme divine, que tu as mises au monde, deux oeuvres tirées de ton coeur, que ta main écrivit. L'une chante d'Ulysse le retour et la longue errance, l'autre Ilion et la guerre des Dardanides.
    Language
    French
    Source(s)
    F. Buffière, R. Aubreton, 1980, Anthologie Grecque. Tome XIII: Anthologie de Planude (vol. 13), Paris: 189-190
  • Sohn des Meles, Homer, du brachtest für Hellas und deine
    Heimat Kolophon einst nimmervergehenden Ruhm.
    Und du gebarest zwei Töchter aus deiner göttlichen Seele,
    denn aus der Tiefe der Brust schriebst du von Büchern dies Paar:
    eines singt von der Heimkehr des vielverschlagnen Odysseus,
    eines vom Dardanervolk und dem Trojanischen Krieg.
    Language
    German
    Source(s)
    H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. XII-XVI (vol. 4), München: 459
Comment The epigram is preserved as book epigram in two 16th-century manuscripts: Oxford Bodl. Canonic. gr. 79 and Escorial gr. IV. 22.
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

G. de Andrés Martínez, 1967, Catálogo de los codices griegos de la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial. Códices 421-649 (vol. 3), Madrid: 244
Number of verses 6
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki, Renaat Meesters

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Identification Anthologia Graeca, XVI.292
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