Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19534
(formerly occ/3032)

	+ ἀνθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀν(θρώπ)ων γένει,
	τρύχει βία φάραγγι προσπεπηγμένος·
	τὸ πῦρ προμηθεῦ ὃ βροτοῖς ἐχαρίσω,
	ὕλη πρὸ(ς) ἀκάματον εὑρέθη φλόγα,
	ὀργῆς κατά σοῦ πρὸ(ς) θεῶν πυρσουμένης·

Type(s)	[3434] Ἀνθ’ ὧν τὸ πῦρ δέδωκας ἀνθρώπων γένει (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 91, Sup. 5 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 40r
Palaeographical information	Written by the same hand as the main text.
Contextual information	Written after Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, as one single epigram with the one beginning 'αἰσχύλ(ε) τὶ φὴς τοὺς θεούς σου προσφέρεις'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aeschylus
Comment	Bandini (1770: 421) gives only the incipit and the desinit, which is different from the one of the well-known type.
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0001161702&keyworks=aeschylus#page/83/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1770, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 3), Florence: 421
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Julián Bértola Contributor(s) Julián Bértola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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