De recentioris aetatis epigrammate Coi asservato

The article examines an unpublished inscription conserved in the Nerantzia Castle of Kos (Greece). It consists four elegiac couplets that Coan scholar Stamatios K. Pantelidis (Παντελίδης) composed some time before 1879. was supposed to be located facade school founded year indicated inscription. Seemingly, after earthquake which devastated 1933, it relocated warehouse northern along with many other inscriptions. On one hand, provides possibility knowing how stonegravers work, what extent Greeks knew their very own language its ancient form and way they dealt when came use (then now) unusual forms language. is relevant cultural history Greece last years Ottoman rule it, as part Empire until 1912, date passed under Italian 1947, isle incorporated into Hellenic Republic. Therefore purpose clarify historical real circumstances inscription, well analyze compositional process this dedicatory epigram from metrical point view (it contains deviations classical precepts), style tradition. has not been previously studied due peculiar characteristics. Indeed, written modern times but archaizing Greek (i. e. roughly respecting rules grammar), so by neohellenists given character language, nor classicists because recent times.