Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6574
(formerly typ/4476)

	Ἄνδρε δύω κρατερὼ καὶ ἐν ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἀρίστω
	ἤτοι ὁ μὲν Τρώων, ὁ δ' Ἀχαιῶν χαλκοχιτώνων
	κάλλεϊ ἀμφ' Ἑλένης μεμάασι δόρεσσι μάχεσθαι·
	ὥς ἄρα ἀφραδίη μερόπων φρένας ὤλεσε πάμπαν
	ὥστ' Ἀφροδίτης λυσιμελοῦς μόρον ἀντιφέρεσθαι
	καὶ μαλακῶν Χαρίτων γλυκερὸν φθινύθειν αἰῶνα.

Title(s)	Ὑπόθεσις τῆς Γ διὰ στίχων ἡρωϊκῶν
Text source	F. Pontani 2005, Il mito, la lingua, la morale: tre piccole introduzioni a Omero, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, 133, 23-74: 73
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Aphrodite Helen Homer (8th c. BC) - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Menelaos Paris Three Graces
Tag(s)	Hypothesis Introduction to the subject Reference to content of the book
Bibliography
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[24806] ἄνδρε δύω κρατερὼ κ(αὶ) ἐν ἡγεμόνεσιν ἀρίστω [1451-1500] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 22 [1459] (f. 34r) (6 verses) [26120] ἄνδρε δύω κρατερὼ καὶ ἐν ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἀρίστω [1301-1350] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana I 58 sup. [1301-1350] (f. 32v) (6 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2011, 202: "Argumentum rhapsodiae Γ Iliadis"
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Last modified: 2020-12-15.