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Occurrence 23360
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	χρησμὸς ὁ δοθεὶς λαΐω τῆ θηβαίω:·

	Λάιε λαβδακίδη· παίδων γένος ὄλβιον αἰτεῖς, \|
	δώσω τοι φίλον υἱὸν· ἀτὰρ πεπρωμένον \| ἐστὶ
	σοῦ παιδὸς χείρεσσι λιπεῖν φάος· ὣς γ(ὰρ) \| ἔνευσε
	ζεὺς κρονίδης· πέλοπος στυγεραῖς \| ἀραῖσι πιθήσας·
	οὗ φίλον ἥρπασας υἱὸν ὅ δ’ \| ηὔξατό σοι τάδε πάντα:-

Type(s)	[3285] Λάϊε λαβδακίδη· παίδων γένος ὄλβιον ζητεῖς (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1476-1500
Manuscript	EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca Υ.III.15 [1476-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 103r
Palaeographical information	The title and initial are written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is the third in a series of four poems that precede Sophocles' Oidipous tyrannus.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Laios Oedipus Pelops Zeus
Comment	De Andrés gives no text, but he refers to Dindorf-Mekler, pp. 105-106.
Image source(s)	https://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/16337#?xywh=-200%2C1775%2C2981%2C1301&cv=217
Bibliography	Secondary G. de Andrés Martínez, 1965, Catálogo de los codices griegos de la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial. Códices 179-420 (vol. 2), Madrid: 164
Number of verses	5
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