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Type 6240
(formerly typ/4218)

	Εὗρες, Σοφόκλεις, ἐν σοφοῖς μέγα κλέος.
	Ἀλλοτρίας γὰρ συμπλέκων θρηνῳδίας
	ἅπαντας ἡμᾶς πενθίμους ἀπειργάσω.

Text source	M. Tomadaki, Emilie M. van Opstall 2019, The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 19, 193-220: 205
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	You reaped great fame among the wise, Sophocles; by composing the lamentations of others you made us all feel sad. Language English Source(s) M. Tomadaki, Emilie M. van Opstall 2019, The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 19, 193-220: 205 Nactus es, o Sophocles, inter sapientes magnam laudem. Alienos enim connectens lugubres-cantus, omnes nos moestos effluisti. Language Latin Source(s) E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 324
Bibliography	Primary E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 324
Number of verses	3
Occurrence(s)	[24041] εὔρες σοφόκλεις ἐν σοφοῖς μέγα κλέος [10th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 9 [10th c.] (f. 117v) (3 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Cristina Cocola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Anthologia Graeca Appendix, III.III.200 Vassis ICB 2005, 267: "In Sophoclem"
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