Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6574
(formerly typ/4476)

	Ἄνδρε δύω κρατερὼ καὶ ἐν ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἀρίστω
	ἤτοι ὁ μὲν Τρώων, ὁ δ' Ἀχαιῶν χαλκοχιτώνων
	κάλλεϊ ἀμφ' Ἑλένης μεμάασι δόρεσσι μάχεσθαι·
	ὥς ἄρα ἀφραδίη μερόπων φρένας ὤλεσε πάμπαν
	ὥστ' Ἀφροδίτης λυσιμελοῦς μόρον ἀντιφέρεσθαι
	καὶ μαλακῶν Χαρίτων γλυκερὸν φθινύθειν αἰῶνα.

Title(s)	Ὑπόθεσις τῆς Γ διὰ στίχων ἡρωϊκῶν
Text source	F. Pontani 2005, Il mito, la lingua, la morale: tre piccole introduzioni a Omero, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, 133, 23-74: 73
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Aphrodite Helen Homer (8th c. BC) Menelaos Paris Three Graces
Tag(s)	Hypothesis Introduction to the subject Reference to content of the book
Bibliography
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[24806] ἄνδρε δύω κρατερὼ κ(αὶ) ἐν ἡγεμόνεσιν ἀρίστω [1451-1500] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 22 [1459] (f. 34r) (6 verses) [26120] ἄνδρε δύω κρατερὼ καὶ ἐν ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἀρίστω [1301-1350] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana I 58 sup. [1301-1350] (f. 32v) (6 verses)
Acknowledgements	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 2011, 202: "Argumentum rhapsodiae Γ Iliadis"
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