Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19345
(formerly occ/2816)

	πτολεμαῖος :-

	Οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητὸς ἔφυν κ(αὶ) ἐφήμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων
	μαστεύω\| πυκνὰς ἀμφιδρόμους ἕλικας,
	οὐκέτ’ ἐπιψαύω γαίης \| ποσὶν, ἀλλὰ παρ’ αὐτῷ
	ζωνὶ θεοτρόφέος πείμπλαμαι ἀμβρο\|σίης:-

Type(s)	[2326] Οἶδ’, ὅτι θνατὸς ἐγὼ καὶ ἐφάμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 10, Cod. 21 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 173r
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Claudius Ptolemy (2nd c.) Zeus
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000613198&keyworks=plut.10.21#page/351/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 489
Number of verses	4
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Lotte van Olmen, Ilse De Vos The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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