Type 4082
(formerly typ/2171)
| Ὁ τετρακλίμου χθονὸς ὢν κυβερνήτης | |
| πῶς τοῦ τριμεροῦς τῆς ψυχῆς τὴν ὁλκάδα | |
| ἔσχες οὐδαμῶς κυβερνᾶν, ἀλλ' ἐνδίδως | |
| τὴν βάσιν νοὸς τοῦ βασιλικωτάτου | |
| τῇ παρ' ἁπάντων ἀνοίᾳ τῇ ἀτίμῳ, | |
| ὅθεν ἐξηπάτησαι καὶ τέλος ὤφθης | |
| τῆς μελαίνης μοίρας γε καὶ παραλόγου; |
| 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: 200-202 |
| Text status | Text completely known |
| Editorial status | Critical text |
| Genre(s) | Text-related epigram |
| Metre(s) | Dodecasyllable |
| Subject(s) | |
| Tag(s) | Reference to content of the book |
| Translation(s) |
You, the governor of the four-sided earth, how is it possible that you were completely incapable of steering the ship of the three-part soul, and let the base of the most royal mind to yield to folly, the one disgraced by everyone, by which you were deceived and appeared as the fulfilment of the dark and irrational fate? |
| Bibliography | |
| Number of verses | 7 |
| Occurrence(s) |
[20174] ὁ τετρακλίμου χθονὸ(ς) ὢν κυβερνίτης
[14th c.]
FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 98 [1372] (f. 206v) (7 verses) |
| Acknowledgements |
Contributor(s)
Renaat Meesters - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Maria Tomadaki - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Kristoffel Demoen - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Julián Bértola - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:
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| Identification | Vassis ICB 2005, 556: "In Aeschyli Persas" |
| Permalink | https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/4082 |
Last modified: 2021-02-04.
