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Type 4049
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Ἐννέα τῶν πρώτων λυρικῶν πάτρην γενεήν τε
μάνθανε, καὶ πατέρας, καὶ διάλεκτον ἄθρει.
Ὧν Μιτυληναῖος μὲν ἔην, γεραρώτερος ἄλλων,
Ἀλκαῖος πρότερος, ἠχικὸς Αἰολίδος.
Ἣ δ’ ἐπὶ τῷ ξυνὴν πάτρην φωνήν τε δαεῖσα
Σαπφώ, Κληῖδος καὶ πατρὸς Εὐρυγόρου.
Στησίχορος Σικελός· πάτρη δέ οἱ Ἱμέρα ἐστίν·
Εὐφήμου πατρός, Δωρικὸς ἁρμονίην.
Ἴβυκος Ἰταλὸς αὖ ἐκ Ῥηγίου ἠὲ Μεσήνης,
Ἠελίδα πατρός, Δωρίδα δ’ ἡρμόσατο.
Παρθενίου δὲ πατρὸς λιγυρὸς πάις Ἠετίης τε
ἦν ἄρα μελπόμενος Τῇος Ἀνακρεΐων.
Πίνδαρος ἦν Θηβαῖος, ἀτὰρ πατρὸς Σκοπελίνου,
Δώριον αἰνήσας ἁρμονίην ἐπέων.
Ἠδὲ Σιμωνίδεω Κείου, Δωριστὶ λαλοῦντος,
τὸν πατέρ’ αἰνήσας ἴσθι Λεωπρεπέα.
Ἶσα δαείς, καὶ Κεῖος ἐὼν γενεῇ, μελοποιός,
Μείδωνος πατέρος ἔπλετο Βακχυλίδης.
Ἀλκμὰν ἐν Λυδοῖσι μέγα πρέπει· ἀλλὰ Ἀδάμαντος
ἐστὶ καὶ ἐκ Σπάρτης, Δωρίδος ἁρμονίης.
Title(s) Εἰς τοὺς ἐννέα λυρικοὺς ποιητὰς ἡρωελεγεῖοι
Text source E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 299
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Subject(s)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Novem primorum lyricorum patriam genusque
disce, et patres et linguam vide.
Inter quos Mitylenensis erat, senior aliis,
Alcaeus prior, Aeolice sonans.
Eaque quae cum illo communem patriam sermonemque novit
Sappho, Cleidos et patris Eurygorae filia.
Stesichorus Siculus: patriaque ei Himera est;
Euphemi patris, Doricus poetico-cantu.
Ibycus Italus autem Rhegio oriundus aut Messana,
Eelida patre, dorico sermone composuit.
Parthenii patris arguta-voce-praeditus filius Eetiaeque,
erat quidem canens Teius Anacreon.
Pindarus erat Thebanus, atque patre Scopelino,
qui doricum probavit concentum versuum.
Atque Simonidis Cei, dorice loquentis
patrem celebratum scito Leoprepem.
Aeque doctus, et Ceus quoque genere, lyricus poeta,
Midonis patris erat Bacchylides.
Alcman apud Lydios laude excellit, sed Adamantis
est filius atque Sparta oriundus, dorico sermone.
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: 299
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. III.73

Title; Cougny (1890: 299): 'Εἰς τοὺς λυρικοὺς ποιητὰς ἡρωελεγεῖοι'.
Title; Drachmann (1903: 10): 'Εἰς τοὺς ἐννέα λυρικούς'.
Title; De Andres (1987: 162): 'εἰς τοὺς λυρικοὺς ἡρῳελεγεῖοι'.
Title; Mioni (1965: 300): 'Εἰς τοὺς λυρικοὺς ἡρῳελεγεῖοι'.
Bibliography

Primary

A. Drachmann, 1903, Scholia vetera in Pindari carmina . Scholia in Olympionicas (vol. 1), Leipzig: 10-11
Number of verses 20
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Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Maria Tomadaki

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