Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34328

	ἕτ(εροι) πα\|λαιοῖ

	Κλέψας τὸ πῦρ παρέσχε τ(οῖς) θνητοῖς γέρα·
	Καὶ κάμπτεται μάστιξι ταῖς διὸς τάλας·
	Ψευδώνυμον λέλογχε τὴν κλῆσιν μόνος·
	Προμηθίας δεῖται γὰρ, ἢ προβουλίας:-

Type(s)	[6213] Κλέψας τὸ πῦρ παρέσχε τοῖς θνητοῖς γέρα (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1413
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - phil. gr. 197 [1413]
Place in Manuscript	f. 180r
Person(s)	Scribe Konstantinos Ketzas - PLP: V.11666
Palaeographical information	The initials and the title are written in red ink. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is the last in a series of four epigrams, written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Prometheus Zeus
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_8699212
Bibliography	Primary C. Herington, 1972, The older scholia on the Prometheus Bound, Leiden: 241
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[20842] φερωνύμως λέλογχε τὴν κλῆσιν μόνος [1476-1500] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana C 32 sup. [1476-1500] (f. 127r) (2 verses) (1/4) [21170] φερωνύμ(ως) λέλογχε τ(ὴν) κλῆσ(ιν) μόνος [1176-1200] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana C 222 inf. [1176-1200] (f. 109r) (2 verses) (1/4) [22597] φερωνύμως λέλογχε τὴν κλῆσιν μόνος [14th c.] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - ex-Vind. gr. 15* [14th c.] (f. Iv) (2 verses) (1/4) [19935] φερωνύμως λέλογχε τὴν κλῆσιν μόνος [1497-1502] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Auct. T. 1.14 [1497-1502] (f. 24v) (2 verses) (1/4) [31908] φερωνύμως λέλογχε τὴν κλῆσιν μόνος [15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1310 (f. 216r) (2 verses) (1/4) [23994] κλέψας τὸ πῦρ παρέσχε τοῦ θνητοῦ γέρα [1326-1375] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 110 [1326-1375] (f. 23v) (2 verses) (2/4) display 3 more occurrences (6 in total) hide 3 occurrences (6 in total)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(s) 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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