Type 6573
(formerly typ/4475)

Οὐ νέμεσις ἀπαφίσκειν οὐδὲ θεοῖς βασιλῆας
οἷσι κακορραφίη τε μέμηλε καὶ ἔχθεα λυγρά,
οἷα καὶ Ἀτρείωνι ἀνάρσια ἔργα τέτυκται
εἰς Ἀχιλῆα περίφρονα ὄρχαμον ἠγεμονήων.
Τῷ ῥα καὶ ἐξαπάτηται καὶ πολὺν ὤλεσε λαόν·
οὕτως ἡ πλεονεξίη ἔπλετο πᾶσι κακίστη.
Title(s) Εἰς τὴν ὑπόθεσιν τῆς Β στίχοι ἡρωϊκοὶ
Text source F. Pontani 2005, Il mito, la lingua, la morale: tre piccole introduzioni a Omero, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, 133(1), 23-74: 73
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)
Tag(s) Reference to content of the book
Translation(s) Haud indignandum vel in deos si decipiant reges
quibus curae-sunt insidise et odia tristia:
qualia et ab Atrida scelerate facta sunt
in Achillem valde-cordatum, principem ductorum.
Quare quidem et deceptus est et multum perdidit populum.
Sic cupiditas fuit omnibus pessima.
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: 416
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. IV.97
Bibliography
Number of verses 6
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements

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Identification Vassis ICB 2011, 248: "In argumentum rhapsodiae B Iliadis"
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