Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 7005
(formerly typ/4917)

	Αἰαγμάτων ἄξιος Αἴας τυγχάνει·
	σκότῳ γὰρ ὄντως ἐκμελανθεὶς τὰς φρένας
	ἑαυτὸν ἀπέσφαξεν Ἕκτορος ξίφει.

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: 211-212
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Aias Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	Ajax deserves to be lamented; with his mind indeed obscured by darkness, he slew himself with Hector’s sword. 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: 211
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)	[24496] αἰαγμάτων ἄξιος αἴας τυγχάνει [1401-1450] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2221 [15th c.] (f. 61v) (3 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, 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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