Type 6784
(formerly typ/4682)
Σαρδώ τις ἔστι νῆσος Ἰβηροτρόφος, | |
έν ᾗ βοτάνη φθαρτικὴ γῆς ἐκτρέχει, | |
σελινοειδής, Σαρδάνη καλουμένη. | |
Βεβρωμένη δὲ τοῖς ἀπείροις αὐτίκα | |
σπασμούς τε ποιεῖ καὶ γελώτων ἐμφάσεις | |
καὶ πότμος εὐθύς, καὶ γελάσιμος μόρος. | |
Ἄλλοι δὲ φασὶ Σαρδανεῖς τοὺς βαρβάρους | |
γηρῶντας αὐτῶν τοὺς γενάρχας ἐσχάτως | |
ἄγειν λαβόντας εἰς ἀπόκρημνον τόπον· | |
κτείνειν τε τούτους ἐν ῥοπάλοις καὶ λίθοις, | |
ἔπειτα ῥίπτειν ἐκ πετρῶν τοὺς ἀθλίους, | |
γελῶντας εἰκῆ παιδιαῖς πατροκτόνοις. | |
Ἄλλοις δὲ τοὺς θνήσκοντας ἀρέσκει πλέον | |
γελᾷν ὁρῶντας τεχνικὰς παροινίας | |
καὶ τὰς κυλίστρας καὶ στροφὰς τῶν πραγμάτων. |
Text status | Text completely known |
Editorial status | Not a critical text |
Genre(s) | Text-related epigram |
Person(s) | |
Metre(s) | Dodecasyllable |
Subject(s) | Hesiod (8th-7th c. BC) |
Tag(s) | Reference to content of the book |
Comment | The poem also occurs in Vat. Ottob. gr. 252 (f. 202r), where it does not function as a book epigram (see Agati & Canart 2022: 131). |
Bibliography |
Bibliography category to be determined T. Gaisford, 1823, Poetae minores Graeci. Scholia ad Hesiodum. (vol. 2), Leipzig: 83 |
Number of verses | 15 |
Occurrence(s) |
[25354] σαρδώ τις ἔστι νῆσος ἰβηροτρόφο(ς)
[13th-14th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1332 [13th-14th c.] (f. 138v) (15 verses) |
Acknowledgements |
Contributor(s)
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Identification | Vassis ICB 2005, 666: "Ioann. Tzetzes, Scolium in Hesiodum" |
Permalink | https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/6784 |
Last modified: 2023-08-31.