Epitaph of a dog
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Probably third or second century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], n. 5, pl. II.b-c, whence [...], 47.2176; [...] 006. Cf. [...], pp. 1308-1310, whence [...], 51.2207.

Τύραννος κύων

Ἐνθάδε δὴ κεῖμαι ὑπὸ γαίης, δέσποτα, πολλὰ πονήσας

Le chien Tyrannos.

Ici je gis sous la terre, mon maître, après bien des fatigues.

The dog Tyrannos.

Here I lay under the earth, dear master, having endured much toil.

Tyrannos, il cane.

Qui giaccio sotto terra, padrone, dopo tante fatiche.

الكلب تيرانوس. أنا أرقد هنا تحت الأرض، سيدي العزيز، بعد تحمل الكثير من التعب (أو القيام بالعمل الشاق).

The findspot is situated about 17 km from Cyrene southwards. The dog, who from the image seems to have been a hunting-dog, was probably buried in a country-estate near which his master used to go hunting.

For dogs' epitaphs, see bibliography at [...] and also [...].

Metrical analysis of b): we have here a dactylic heptameter, probably produced by adjunction of δέσποτα inside a regular hexameter, with trihemimeric and bucolic caesurae.