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Occurrence 17146
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	Ἐρεύγεται μὲν καρδία ναὶ τοὺς λόγους
	ἀνδρῶν μεγίστων... (sic) πανσόφων
	τούτους δέ χεῖρες εὐστόχων καλλιγράφων
	δέλτοις κατατάττουσιν εὐφυεστάτως
	καθὼς ὁρᾶτε τὴν βίβλον ταύτην ἔχειν.
	τοίνυν ἄριστον τυγχάνει τὸ βιβλίον.
	ἄμφω γὰρ αὐχεῖ πῆξιν εὐφημουμένην.
	ἐν γράμμασι μὲν χειρὶ τοῦ χρυσογράφου,
	γνώσει δὲ συγγράμμασι τῶν συγγραφέων.
	οἱ συγγραφεῖς δέ τίνες; εἴπω συντόμως.
	τὸν Νύσσης Γρηγόριον, Κλήμεντα Ρώμης
	τοῦ Στεφάνου Στέφανον ἐν Συμεῶνι
	τῷ Μεταφραστῇ συγγραφεῖς ἐγὼ λέγω.
	ὧν ταῖς προσευχαῖς καὶ Θεόδουλον σκέποις
	βασιλεῦ τῶν καλῶν χορηγέτα.

Type(s)	[2997] Ἐρεύγεται μὲν καρδία ναὶ τοὺς λόγους (15 verses)
Text source	S. Eustratiades, S. Lauriotes, 1925, Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts in the Library of the Laura on Mount Athos, Cambridge: 68
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	ATHOS - Mone Megistes Lauras Δ 71 (Eustratiades 447) [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 6v
Person(s)	Scribe Theodoulos (11th c.)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Clement of Alexandria (2nd-3rd c.) Gregory of Nyssa (saint) (4th c.) (episkopos of Nyssa < Cappadocia) Symeon Metaphrastes (10th c.) - PMBZ: 29659: "Personenkennziffer: 27504"
Bibliography	Primary B. Atsalos 2000, Termes byzantins relatifs à la décoration des manuscrits grecs, in G. Prato (ed.), I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito. Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca Cremona, 4 - 10 ottobre 1998 (vol. 2), Florence, 445-511: 492 F. Euangelatou-Notara, 1982, Σημειώματα ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων ὡς πηγὴ διὰ τὴν ἔρευναν τοῦ οἰκονομικοῦ καὶ κοινωνικοῦ βίου τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἀπὸ τοῦ 9ου αἰῶνος μέχρι τοῦ ἔτους 1204, Athens: 180 R. Ricceri 2026, Text and Image, Text as Image: The Beauty of the Book in Byzantine Book Epigrams, in M. Cutino, F. Stella (eds.), Versus ad picturas. Text/Image Relation in Greek, Latin and Arabic Poetry, Berlin, 243-263: 250-251 Σημειώματα-Κώδικες (last accessed: 2026-03-24). http://simeiomata-kodikon.arch.uoa.gr/index.php/simeioma/249
Number of verses	15
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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