Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17765
(formerly occ/1017)

	(...)μιχίδα θεόκριτε σοφῶν ὀίων ποιμάντορ
	(καὶ) τοκάδων αἰγῶν αἰπόλε μηκάδων
	τὰς ἑλικωνίτιδ(ες) βοτάναι θρέψαν ἀρίστως·
	οὐ περὶ μάνδραν ἔδυν τεήν, ἀλλὰ σποράδ(ας)
	ἐξ ορέων συνέλεξα (καὶ) ἐς μίαν ἤγαγον μάνδρ(αν)
	βωκολικὰς μοίσας, αἳ γέννημα σέθεν
	οὐ πλειόνων δ’ ἐπέτυχον ἐπεί γε μόλις (καὶ) τῶνδε:-

Type(s)	[2318] Σιμιχίδα Θεόκριτε σοφῶν ὀΐων ποιμάντορ (7 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th-14th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 42 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 49r
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Theocritus' Idyllia.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Nine Muses Theokritos (315 BC-260 BC)
Comment	Mercati - De' Cavalieri (1923: 38) give only the incipit.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.42/0054
Bibliography	Primary G. Mercati, P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, 1923, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1-329 (vol. 1), Rome: 38 C. Wendel, 1914, Scholia in Theocritum vetera, Leipzig: 333
Number of verses	7
Related occurrence(s)	[19391] σιμιχίδα θεόκριτε σοφῶν ὀίων ποιμάντορ [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 37 [14th c.] (f. 29v) (7 verses) (7/7) [20954] (...)ίδα θεόκριτε σοφ(ῶν) ὀΐων ποιμάντορ [1251-1350] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana G 32 sup. [13th-15th c.] (f. 56r) (7 verses) (7/7) [19991] σιμμιχίδα Θεόκριτε σοφῶν ὀΐων ποιμάντορ [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Auct. T. 4.5 [15th c.] (f. 187v) (6 verses) (6/7) [17857] (...)μιχίδα θεόκριτε σοφ(ῶν) ὀΐων ποιμάντορ [14th-15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1825 [13th-15th c.] (f. 218r) (7 verses) (4/7) [20696] σιμιχίδα θεόκριτε σοφῶν ὀΐων ποιμάντορ [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1948 [15th c.] (f. 31v) (7 verses) (7/7)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout 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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