ἡ πρό[π]υλον κα[---]·
τῆς γὰ̣ρ ἐγὼ Γ[---]
ἔρνος <ἀ>νερχό[μ]ε̣ν̣[ον ---]
Λ̣ητοΐδ̣ην δὲ [---].
EpiDoc XML:
GVCyr0502
Trismegistos ID:
738939
Source description
Support: Support unknown and material unknown.
Layout: Inscribed.
Letters: Height unknown; some small serifs; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega.
Date: First to third century AD (lettering).
Findspot: First copied probably by Granger in 1730 at Cyrene ➚: perhaps Sanctuary of Apollo (see commentary).
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Seems to be lost.
Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Fränkel 1903, p. 87, n. 3; Peek 1972, n. 10; GVCyr 050 ➚.
Text
ἡ πρό[π]υλον κα[---]·
τῆς γὰ̣ρ ἐγὼ Γ[---]
ἔρνος <ἀ>νερχό[μ]ε̣ν̣[ον ---]
Λ̣ητοΐδ̣ην δὲ [---].
| ἡ πρό[π]υλον κα[---]·
| τῆς γὰ̣ρ ἐγὼ Γ[---]
| ἔρνος <ἀ>νερχό[μ]ε̣ν̣[ον ---]
| Λ̣ητοΐδ̣ην δὲ [---].
ΗΠΡΟ[.]ΥΛΟΝΚΑ[---]
ΤΗΣΓ.ΡΕΓΩΓ[---]
ΕΡΝΟΣΝΕΡΧΟ[.]..[..---]
.ΗΤΟΙ.ΗΝΔΕ[---]
Apparatus
1: ἡ πρό[π]υλον κα[---]: ἡ πρό[π]υλον κα[θορῶσα δάφνη ξένη εἰμὶ Κυρήνης] Peek 1972; ΗΠΡΟ+ΥΛΟΝΚΑ Fränkel 1903
2: τῆς γὰ̣ρ ἐγὼ Γ[---]: τῆς γὰ̣ρ ἔγωγ[ε ---] or; γ̣ῆς γὰ̣ρ ἐγὼ γ[ενόμην Ἑλλάδος, οὐ Λιβύης] Peek 1972; ΤΗΣΓΔΡΕΓΩΓ Fränkel 1903
3: ἔρνος <ἀ>νερχό[μ]ε̣ν̣[ον] Peek 1972: ΡΝΟΣΝΕΡΧΟ(vac. 1)ΤΥ Fränkel 1903 || [---]: [Κράτερος δ' ἱερεύς με φύτευσε] Peek 1972
4: Λ̣ητοΐδ̣ην Peek 1972: ΚΗΤΟΙΛΗΝ Fränkel 1903 || δὲ [---]: δ' ἔ[τι νῦν κοσμῶ ἐμοῖς στέφεσιν] Peek 1972
French translation
La [---] le portail [---], dont pour ma part [---] un rejeton s'élevant [---]; mais le fils de Lètô [---].
English translation
The [---] the gate [---], of which as for me [---] an offshoot growing [---]; but the son of Leto [---].
Italian translation
La [---] il portale [---], del quale per quel che mi riguarda [---] un virgulto che cresce [---]; ma il figlio di Latona [---].
Commentary
Amongst the notebooks of the French clergyman and scholar Michel Fourmont (1690-1746) are some copies of inscriptions that he received from other persons. When examining Fourmont's archive (this page now available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52506379g/f742.image.r), Fränkel had noticed that this copy was not of Fourmont's hand. He only reproduced the copy without interpreting it. No findspot is given, but one of the texts (IRCyr2020 C.416) contains a reference to Cyrene and another one (IRCyr2020 C.384) still survives in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Laronde has shown that the author of the copy is presumably Granger, who visited Cyrene in 1730 (see Laronde 1987, pp. 18-19; Laronde 1990 and Laronde 1990).
Peek proposed very long restorations, which we can not fully endorse. His restorations were based on the idea that this epigram is related to GVCyr0282 and GVCyr0362, which both mention a laurel, the latter being inscribed on the Roman propylaeum. This idea seems to be confirmed by the mention of ἔρνος ἀνερχόμενον, a quotation from Od. VI.163, where the beautiful Nausicaa is compared with Apollo's laurel. However ἔρνος may simply be a metaphor for 'child' or 'grand-child' without any relation with a laurel or any other real tree.
Metrical analysis: the fragmentary sequences are all dactylic. The beginning of line 2 τῆς γάρ indicates a new sentence, thus compelling to suppose at line 1 at least a noun related to ἡ and a verb. Ιt is therefore clear that each text line is a verse line (this leaving the Homeric quotation at its original place). It is however impossible to guess whether we have four hexameters or two elegiac couplets. The latter is Peek's choice, but usually in such a case, at Cyrene, there is an alternate inset for the pentameter on the stone.
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Images
Fig. 1. Copy of gvcyr050 Unclear
Maps
Cyrene general plan
Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo
