Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17251
(formerly occ/416)

	Μέγα κύδεον ὄλβον σαυτῶι \| ὁ πάζων:- \|
	Ἀγίοχας κράτιστα φυτῶν \| παντοίων:- \|
	Πόας τε πάσης ἐν ταυτῶι \| τὰς εἰδέας:- \|
	Πῆμα τ' ἐξ αὐτῶν προϊὸν (καὶ) \| πᾶν ἄκος:- \|
	Τοῖς σπουδάζουσι καρπί\|ζεσθαι τὴν ῥῶσιν:- \|
	Τούνεκα κλεινὸς διοσκου\|ρίδη φάνθης:- \|
	Ὅσοις ἅλιος φέγγος ἑὸν ἐκ\|πέμπει:-

Type(s)	[5142] Μέγα κύδεον ὄλβοη σαυτῷ ὁ πάζων (7 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca R.III.3 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 97v
Palaeographical information	The initial of each verse is written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Dioscorides' book IV.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus < Cilicia < Asia Minor < Turkey (1st c.)
Image source(s)	https://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/15813#?xywh=-183%2C1570%2C2656%2C1159&cv=194
Bibliography	Primary A. Revilla, 1936, Catálogo de los codices griegos de la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial (vol. 1), Madrid: 151
Number of verses	7
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, 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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