Type 5399
(formerly typ/3430)

Ἐν Χρύσῃ Ἀθηνᾶς βωμὸν ἐπικεχωσμένον,
ἐφ’ οὗπερ Ἀχαιοῖς χρησθὲν ἦν θῦσαι, μόνος
Ποίαντος ᾔδει παῖς ποθ’ Ἡρακλεῖ ξυνών.
Ζητῶν δὲ τοῦτον ναυβάτῃ δεῖξαι στόλῳ,
πληγεὶς ὑπ’ ἔχεως, ἐλίπετ’ ἐν Λήμνῳ νοσῶν.
Ἕλενος δ’ Ἀχαιοῖς εἶφ’ ἁλώσεσθ’ Ἴλιον
τοῖς Ἡρακλέους τόξοισι, παιδί τ’ Ἀχιλλέως.
Τὰ τόξ’ ὑπῆρχε παρὰ Φιλοκτήτῃ μόνῳ·
πεμφθεὶς δ’ Ὀδυσσεὺς ἀμφοτέρους συνήγαγεν.
Title(s) Φιλοκτήτου ὑπόθεσις
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Metre(s) Iambic trimeter
Subject(s)
Tag(s)
Critical Notes 1 Ἐν Χρύσῃ Pearson] Χρύσης Cougny
Translation(s) Chryses Minervae aram congestam,
in qua Achaeis oraculo-edictum erat sacrificare, unus
Poeantis noverat filius quondam Herculis familiaris:
quaerens autem eam quomodo navali indicaret exercitui,
percussus ab angue, relictus est aeger in Lemno,
Helenusque Achaeis dixit captum-iri Ilium
Herculis telis, et Achillis filio.
Atqui tela erant-in-manibus Philoctetae unius;
missus autem Ulysses ambos adduxit.
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: 304-305
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. III.91
Bibliography
Number of verses 9
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements

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