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Occurrence 37131

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	λύσις τοῦ αἰνίγματος:·

	Κλῦθι καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσα κακόπτερε μοῦσα \| θανόντων
	φωνῆς ἡμετέρης σὸν τέλος ἀμπλα\|κίης·
	ἄν(θρωπ)ον κατέλεξας· ὃς ἡνίκα γαῖαν ἐφέρπη, \|
	πρῶτον ἔφυ τετράπους νήπιος ἐκ λαγόν(ων)· \|
	γηραλέος δὲ πέλων, τριτὴ πόδα βάκτρον ἐρείδει· \|
	αὐχένα φορτίζων γήραϊ καμπτόμενος:

Type(s)	[6371] Κλῦθι καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλουσα, κακόπτερε Μοῦσα θανόντων (6 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 second in a series of four poems that precede Sophocles' Oidipous tyrannus.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/16337#?xywh=-602%2C1214%2C2981%2C1301&cv=217
Number of verses	6
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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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