Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19351
(formerly occ/2824)

	οὐαὶ προμηθεῦ κρώζων οὐαί σοι μέγα· \|
	χάρ(ιν) βροτ(ῶν) γ(ὰρ) ἠπάτησ(ας) τ(ὸν) δία \|
	[καὶ λάθρα τοῦτου] \| πῶς τὸ πῦρ ἐκεκλόφεις \|
	εἶτ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐπείσθ(ης) ὤν περ ἐστ(αυ)ρωμ(έν)ο(ς) \|
	τ(ον) ἐκβάλοντα τὸν θρόνον εἰπεῖν δία· \|
	[τῶ τοι κεραυνὸς ἐκ] \| πολλοῦ κατηγμένο(ς):\|
	ἔργον τίθησι συντριβ(ῆς) σε τὸν τάλαν. \|
	αἴαζε τοίνυν τοῦτο γ(ὰρ) πάρεστί σοι.

Type(s)	[3439] Οὐαί, Προμηθεῦ, κρᾶξον, οὐαί σοι μέγα (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1276-1400
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 28, Cod. 25 [1276-1300]
Place in Manuscript	f. 67v
Palaeographical information	Written in four columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigrams is directly preceded by two more poems, inc. 'Ἀνθ᾽ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀνθρώπων γένει' and 'Αἰσχύλε, τί φῇς; τοὺς θεοὺς σου προσφέρεις'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Prometheus
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000620310&keyworks=plut.28.25#page/150/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 45
Number of verses	8
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki, Lotte van Olmen
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