Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4408
(formerly typ/2553)

	Ὁ τῶν ἀθέσμων ἐκτελεστὴς πραγμάτων,
	ἔνθεσμον ὄντως τὴν δίκην ὑφίσταται.

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: 207-208
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Electra
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	The perpetrator of unlawful deeds incurs indeed a lawful penalty. Language English Source(s) 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: 207
Comment	Scholium to Sophocles' Electra. It refers to Aegisthus.
Bibliography
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[31661] ὁ τ(ῶν) ἀθέσμ(ων) ἐκτελεστ(ὴς) πραγμάτ(ων) [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 28, Cod. 25 [1276-1300] (f. 190v -- (alt.) f. 193v) (2 verses) [31681] ὁ τ(ῶν) ἀθέσμ(ων) ἐκτελεστ(ὴς) πραγμάτ(ων) [1333] MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4617 (olim N.75) [1326-1500] (f. 69r) (2 verses) [20883] ὁ τῶν ἀθέσμων ἐκτελετής πραγμάτων [15th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana E 77 sup. [15th c.] (f. 103r) (2 verses) [26015] ὁ τῶν ἀθέσμων ἐκτελεστὴς πραγμ(ά)τ(ων) [1276-1300] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana E 103 sup. [1276-1300] (f. 33v) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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