Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 37235

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	+ αἰασμ(ά)τ(ων) ἄξιος αἴ(ας) τυγχάνει
	(...) (...)τ(ως) ἐκμελανθεὶς τὰς φρένας,
	ἑαυτὸν ἀπέσφαξ(εν) ἕκτορος ξίφει:-

Type(s)	[7005] Αἰαγμάτων ἄξιος Αἴας τυγχάνει (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	26/12/1333
Manuscript	MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4617 (olim N.75) [26/12/1333-31/12/1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 34v
Person(s)	Scribe Georgios Kinnamos (14th c.) - VGH: 78.B - PLP: V.11717
Palaeographical information	Written in the lower margin. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Sophocles' Aiax. It is preceded by another book epigram.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aias Hektor
Image source(s)	https://bnedigital.bne.es/bd/es/viewer?id=e6da3f0f-0b3e-4119-b83b-5866ecefb8e2&page=40
Bibliography	Primary R. Dawe, 1973, Studies on the Text of Sophocles. The Manuscripts and the Text (vol. 1), Leiden: 118 Secondary G. de Andrés Martínez, 1987, Catálogo de los códices griegos de la Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid: 130
Number of verses	3
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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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