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created: Transcription from previous editors.
source date: First to third century AD
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], p. 87, n. 3; [...], n. 10; [...] 050.

ἡ πρόπυλον κα[...]·
τῆς γὰρ ἐγὼ γ[...]
ἔρνος ἀνερχόμενον [...]
Λητοΐδην δὲ [...].

ἡ πρόπυλον κα[...][^a1] τῆς γὰρ ἐγὼ γ[...][^a2] ἔρνος ἀνερχόμενον[^a3] [...][^a4] Λητοΐδην[^a5] δὲ [...][^a6]

[^a1: ἡ πρόπυλον κα[...] | ἡ πρόπυλον καθορῶσα δάφνη ξένη εἰμὶ Κυρήνης | ηπρο[...]υλονκα]

[^a2: τῆς γὰρ ἐγὼ γ[...] | τῆς γὰρ ἔγωγε [...] | γῆς γὰρ ἐγὼ γενόμην Ἑλλάδος, οὐ Λιβύης | τησγδρεγωγ]

[^a3: ἔρνος ἀνερχόμενον | ρνοσνερχο τυ]

[^a4: [...] | Κράτερος δ' ἱερεύς με φύτευσε]

[^a5: Λητοΐδην | κητοιλην]

[^a6: δὲ [...] | δ' ἔτι νῦν κοσμῶ ἐμοῖς στέφεσιν]

La [...] le portail [...], dont pour ma part [...] un rejeton s'élevant [...]; mais le fils de Lètô [...].

The [...] the gate [...], of which as for me [...] an offshoot growing [...]; but the son of Leto [...].

La [...] il portale [...], del quale per quel che mi riguarda [...] un virgulto che cresce [...]; ma il figlio di Latona [...].

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 [...], pp. 18-19; [...] and [...]).

Peek proposed very long restorations, which we can not fully endorse. His restorations were based on the idea that this epigram is related to GVCyr028 and GVCyr036, 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.