Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6240
(formerly typ/4218)

	Εὗρες, Σοφόκλεις, ἐν σοφοῖς μέγα κλέος.
	Ἀλλοτρίας γὰρ συμπλέκων θρηνῳδίας
	ἅπαντας ἡμᾶς πενθίμους ἀπειργάσω.

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: 205
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	You reaped great fame among the wise, Sophocles; by composing the lamentations of others you made us all feel sad. 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: 205 Nactus es, o Sophocles, inter sapientes magnam laudem. Alienos enim connectens lugubres-cantus, omnes nos moestos effluisti. 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: 324
Comment	= Anth. Gr. Append. III.200
Bibliography	Primary E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 324
Number of verses	3
Occurrence(s)	[24041] εὔρες σοφόκλεις ἐν σοφοῖς μέγα κλέος [10th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 9 [10th c.] (f. 117v) (3 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Cristina Cocola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 267: "In Sophoclem"
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