Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17288
(formerly occ/459)

	οὐδεὶς μὲν χειρὶ τὴν θάλασ\|σαν ἀντλῆσαι·
	ἀν(θρώπ)ων ἀμήχανον ὅλως πειράται·
	βασίλειον οὕτω γε τὸν μέγαν γνώσει·
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Type(s)	[6321] Οὐδεὶς μὲν χειρὶ τὴν θάλασσαν ἀντλῆσαι (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	976-1000
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2056 [976-1000]
Place in Manuscript	f. 60v
Contextual information	Written after Basil's Homily 'in Psalmos 115'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Basil the Great (330-379) (episkopos of Kaisareia < Cappadocia)
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2056/0064
Bibliography	Primary I. Hutter, 2022, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Corpus der Italogriechischen dekorierten Handschriften der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (vol. 6.1), Stuttgart: 141 S. Rudberg 1961, Annotations historiques et adscripta métriques contenus dans les manuscrits de Basile de Césarée, Scriptorium, 15(1), 61-67: 65
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[16996] Εἰ τίς ποτε ἦ, γουργάθω ἐξαντλῆσαι [11th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1673 [11th c.] (f. 287r) (4 verses) (2/4)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Sarah-Helena Van den Brande Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Sarah-Helena Van den Brande, Maria Tomadaki, Eleonora Lauro, 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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