Introduction
This text has been digitally edited by Enrico Chies, Costantino Ferrarese, Giorgia Melena, and Chiara Mingotti on the basis of Pepper's edition. Revision by Holger Essler as part of the teaching in papyrology at Ca' Foscari, Venice. The papyrus belongs to the Zenon archive . It contains two epigrams in honor of the dog Tauron, which died defending his master Zenon attacked by a boar. The author is probably Apollonios, who wrote P.Mich. I 77 to Zenon. The first epitaph is composed in distich verses, the second in iambics. Both are composed in analogous form: presentation of the young heroic dog description of the horrible murderer boar, battle, consolation and promise of burial. In style, these poems may be compared with funerary inscriptions of the time. Moreover, the Atthidographer Philochoros’s lost collection of epigrams attests epitaphs for circulation and lecture in symposia in the last quarter of III B.C. Thus, the exaltation of the contenders might suggest irony – fitting a lecture in symposia, but Zenon might as well have intended the exaltation of his dog as self-promotion.
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’Ινδὸν ὅδ’ ἀπύει(*) τύμβος Ταύρωνα θανόντα
κεῖσθαι, ὁ δὲ κτείνας πρόσθεν ἐπεῖδε Ἀίδαν·
θὴρ ἅπερ ἄντα δρακεῖν, συὸς ἦ(*) ῥ' ἀπὸ τᾶς Καλυδῶνος
λείψανον, εὐκάρποις̣ ἐμ(*) πεδίοις τρέϕετο
5Ἀρσινόας ἀτίνακτον, ἀπ' αὐχένος ἀθρόα ϕρίσσων
[λ]ό̣χμαις(*) καὶ γε̣[ν]ύων ἀϕρὸν ἀμ̣εργόμενος(*)·
σὺν δὲ πεσὼν σκύλακος τόλμαι στή⟦θ⟧\θ/η μὲν ἑτοίμως
ἠλόκισε, οὐ μέλλων δ' αὐχέν\α/ ἔθηκε \ἐ/πὶ γᾶν,
[δ]ρ̣α̣ξ̣ά̣μενος γὰρ ὁμοῦ λοϕιᾶι μεγάλοιο τένοντος
10[ο]ὐ πρὶ̣ν̣ ἔμυσεν(*) ὀδόντα ἔστε ὑπέθηκε ’Αίδαι.
[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] Ζ̣ή̣[νω]να̣ πονῶ̣ν̣(*) ἀδίδακτα κυναγόν,
καὶ κατὰ γᾶς τύμβωι τὰν χάριν ἠργάσατο.
——
ἄλλο
σ⟦κ⟧\ύ/λαξ ὁ τύμβωι τῶιδ' ὕπ' ἐκτερισμένος
15Ταύρων, ἐπ' αὐθένταισιν οὐκ ἀμήχανος·
κάπρωι γὰρ ὡς συνῆλθεν ἀντίαν ἔριν,
ὁ μέν τις ὡς ἄπλατος οἰδήσας γένυν
στῆθος κατηλόκιζε⟦ν⟧ λευκαίνων ἀϕρῶι·
ὁ δ' ἀμϕὶ νώτωι δισσὸν ἐμβαλὼν ἴχνος
20ἐδράξατο ϕρίσσοντος ἐκ στέρνων μέσων
καὶ γᾶι συνεσπείρασεν· Ἀίδαι δὲ δοὺς
τὸν αὐτόχειρ' ἔθν⟦η⟧\α/ισκεν , Ἰνδὸς(*) ὡς νόμος.
σώιζων δὲ τὸν κυναγὸν ὧι παρείπετο
Ζήνωνα ἐλαϕρᾶι τᾶιδ' ὑπεστάλη κόνει. v
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Ζήνωνι
Apparatus
^ r.1. Wilamowitz : ὁδηγεύει Edgar 1920
^ r.3. Edgar 1920 : ἢ Wilamowitz
^ r.4. l. ἐν
^ r.6. Edgar 1931 : [λ]ό̣χμη̣ι̣ Edgar 1920
^ r.6. ἀμ̣ε̣ργόμενος Edgar 1920 : ἀμελγόμενος Cazzaniga
^ r.10. [ο]ὐ πρ[ὶ]ν̣ ἔμυσεν Edgar 1931 : [ο]ὐ̣κ ἀ̣ν̣έμυσεν Edgar 1920 : [ο]ὐ̣κ ἐ̣ν̣έμυσεν Wilcken : [ο]ὐ̣κ ἀ̣π̣έλ̣υσεν Wilamowitz : [ο]ὐ πρὶν ἔλυσεν Page
^ r.11. or Ζ̣ή̣[νω]να̣ πόνω̣ν̣, Pepper : Ζ̣ή̣[νω]να̣ π̣ό̣ν[ων] Lloyd-Jones, Parsons : [καὶ σῶισε] Ζ̣[ήνω]να̣ πο̣ν̣[ῶν] Hengstl 1978 : [σώιζει δὲ] Ζ[ήνω]να πόνων Page
^ r.22. l. Ἰνδὸν
Editorial History; All History; (detailed)
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