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Occurrence 37316

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	Ἔστι δίπουν ἐπὶ γῇς καὶ τετράπ(ον)· οὗ μία φωνὴ
	καὶ τρίπον· ἀλλάσσει δὲ βοὴν μόνον ὅσσ’ ἐπὶ γαῖ(αν)·
	ἑρπετὰ κινεῖται· ἀνά τ᾽ αἰθερὰ καὶ κατὰ πόντ(ὸν)·
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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	1491-1500
Manuscript	EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca Ω.I.9 [1491-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 119r
Person(s)	Scribe Zacharias Kallierges (15th-16th c.) - RGK: I.119, II.156, III.197 - VGH: 125.C
Palaeographical information	The title and initial are written in red ink. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally. The last verse has been written more widely.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes Sophocles' 'Oedipus tyrannus'.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/16224#?xywh=-382%2C794%2C1763%2C769&cv=238
Bibliography	Secondary G. de Andrés Martínez, 1967, Catálogo de los codices griegos de la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial. Códices 421-649 (vol. 3), Madrid: 129
Number of verses	5
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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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