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Occurrence 23361
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	τὸ σφιγγὸς αἴνιγμα, ἀσκλη\|πιάδης οὕτω γράφει:

	Ἔστι δίπουν ἐπὶ γῆς \| καὶ τετράπουν· οὗ μία φωνὴ
	καὶ τρίπουν· \| ἀλλάσσει δὲ βοὴν μόνον· ὅσσ’ ἐπὶ γαῖαν
	ἑρπετά \| κινεῖται ἀνά τ᾽ αἰθέρα καὶ κατα πόντον,
	ἀλλ’ ὁ\|πόταν πλείστοισιν ἐπειγόμενον ποσὶ βαίνη, \|
	ἔνθα τάχος γυίησιν, ἀφαυρότερον πέλει \| αὑτοῦ:·

Type(s)	[5396] Ἔστι δίπουν ἐπὶ γῆς καὶ τετράπον, οὗ μία φωνή (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 first in a series of four poems that precede Sophocles' Oidipous tyrannus.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Comment	De Andrés does not give the text, but he refers to Dindorf-Mekler, pp. 105-106.
Image source(s)	https://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/16337#?xywh=-626%2C473%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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