Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19293
(formerly occ/2755)

	Στίχοι ὠφέλιμοι:-

	ζωὴν εἰ θέλωμεν εὑρεῖν τὴν θαυμαστ(ὴν) ἐκείνην:
	ζηλώσωμ(εν) τὸν κάματ(ον) τῶν θαυ\|μαστ(ῶν) π(ατέ)ρων:
	καὶ πόν(οις) ἀναλώσωμ(εν) σαρκὸ(ς) τὴν εὐσαρκίαν:- \|
	τοὺς ὀχετοὺς ξηράνωμεν τ(οὺς) τῶν ὑπογαστρί(ων):- \|
	τῶν ἡδυνόντων ἀποχὴ. δασμ(ῶν) τῶν οὐ χρησίμων·- \|
	οἰνοφλυγίας νέφωσιν σκεδάσωμ(εν) ἐν δίψει: \|
	μὴ χωρίσωμεν γαστρὶ δασμῶν τ(ῶν) ἀναγκαί(ων):- \|
	καθ᾽ ὑδηπάθειαν αἰσχρὰν περὶσσοτερας ὕλας:- \|
	ὡς ἄν γε μὴ τὴν ἄλωνα τὸ πῦρ προσαναλώσει:
	τὸ στόμα (δὲ) μὴ δώσωμεν ἐξαμαρτεῖν τὴν σάρκα +:- \|
	καθώσπερ φάσκει σολομῶν ὁ θαυμαστὸ(ς) ἐκεῖνος:
	λόγος καὶ γὰρ ἀσύμφορος· ἅπαν μολύνει σῶμα.+:- \|

Type(s)	[3404] Ζωὴν εἰ θέλωμεν εὑρεῖν τὴν θαυμαστὴν ἐκείνην (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1323
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 30 [1323]
Place in Manuscript	f. 167r
Palaeographical information	The title and the initials of each line are in red ink. 11 ὁ θαυμαστὸ(ς) ἐκεῖνος] corr. eadem manus ex ἐκεῖνος ὁ θαυμαστὸ(ς)
Contextual information	Followed by 'τέλος+'.
Metre(s)	Decapentasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Solomon
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000610154&keyworks=plut.07.30#page/347/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 291
Number of verses	12
Related occurrence(s)	[34882] ζωὴν εἰ θέλομεν εὑρεῖν τὴν θαυμαστὴν ἐκείνην [14th c.] MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 30 (Vlad. 3) [14th-15th c.] (f. 264v) (12 verses) (12/12) [26356] Ζωὴν εἰ θέλωμ(εν) εὑρεῖν τ(ὴν) θαυ\|μαστὴν ἐκείνην [1272] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 999 [1272] (f. 178r) (12 verses) (12/12)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Lotte van Olmen, 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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