Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6388
(formerly typ/4346)

	Πρόσωπα τρία τοῦ δράματος νῦν νόει·
	χορὸν γερόντων, Ἄτοσσαν βασιλίδα,
	τὸν ἄγγελον πάλιν τε τῶν μηνυμάτων
	καὶ Δαρείου εἴδωλον ἄρδην καὶ Ξέρξην.
	Τόδ᾽ ἐστὶν ἀφήγημα Περσῶν Αἰσχύλου,
	ἔπαινον προσφέρει γὰρ τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις,
	ἔπαινον, ἐγγώμιον, χάριν μεγίστην.

Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Aeschylus Xerxes I (519 BC - 465 BC)
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Introduction to the subject Reference to content of the book
Bibliography	Primary H. Stevenson, 1885, Codices manuscripti Palatini Graeci, Rome: 82
Number of verses	7
Occurrence(s)	[26156] ροσωπάρια τοῦ δράματος νῦν νόει [15th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana N 175 sup. [15th c.] (f. 39v-40r) (7 verses) [24527] ροσωπάρια τοῦ δράματος νῦν νόει [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Palat. gr. 151 [1451-1500] (f. 289v) (7 verses)
Related type(s)	[5835] Τόδ᾽ ἐστὶν ἀφήγημα Περσῶν Αἰσχύλου (1 verse)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 649: "In Aeschyli Persas"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.