Occurrence 19091
(formerly occ/2536)
| πλάτων, τί πολλὴν πρὸς τάδε σιγὴν στρέφεις· | |
| εἰ μὲν σιωπᾶς τῶν τεθνηκότων νόμω· | |
| ἄλλου λόγου πέφυκε, κοινὸν ὄν τόδε· | |
| εἰδὼς ἀπειπὼν πρὸς τὸ δεινὸν τοῦ λόγου· | |
| εἵλου σιγᾶν μάλιστα τοῦ γρύζειν ὅλως· | |
| σοφὸς πάλιν πέφυκας, ὥσπερ καὶ πάλαι· | |
| εἰδὼς σιωπᾶν, οὗ σιγὴ κρείττων λόγου. |
| Type(s) | [3247] Πλάτων· τί πολλὴν πρὸς τάδε σιγὴν στρέφεις (7 verses) |
| Text source | DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript) |
| Text status | Text completely known |
| Date | 1376-1400 |
| Manuscript | VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 119 [1376-1400] |
| Place in Manuscript | f. 16r |
| Palaeographical information | This text is written by a hand, who copied only the two epigrams on this folio. Written in columns, to be read horizontally. |
| Contextual information | It is followed by another epigram, inc. 'πεσόντος οἰκτρῶς καὶ γόνου τοῦ πηλέως'. |
| Metre(s) | Dodecasyllable |
| Genre(s) | Author-related epigram |
| Subject(s) | Plato (429 BC - 347 BC) |
| Comment | 1 οὗ lege εἰ (Stornajolo (1895: 198)). The poem does not function as a book epigram in this manuscript. |
| Bibliography | |
| Number of verses | 7 |
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Last modified: 2019-08-14.
