Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6371
(formerly typ/4332)

Κλῦθι καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσα, κακόπτερε Μοῦσα θανόντων,
φωνῆς ἡμετέρης, σὸν τέλος ἀμπλακίης.
ἄνθρωπον κατέλεξας, ὃς ἡνίκα γαῖαν ἐφέρπει
πρῶτον ἔφυ τετράπους νήπιος ἐκ λαγόνων
γηραλέος δέ πέλων τρίτατον πόδα βάκτρον ἐρείδει,
αὐχένα φορτίζων, γήραϊ καμπτόμενος
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Subject(s) Oedipus
Tag(s) Reference to content of the book
Bibliography

Secondary

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: 204
Number of verses 6
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Maria Tomadaki

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Identification
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Last modified: 2020-08-26.
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