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Occurrence 21025
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	+ ἔσπευσαν ἄλλοι χρυσὸν εὑρεῖν ἐν βίω·
	ἄλλοι δὲ γῆν σπεύδουσιν ἢ καὶ μαργάρους·
	καὶ πάντα πλοῦτον προσλαβεῖν ἀπληστεία·
	ὁ δεσπότης δὲ τοῦ παρόντος βιβλίου
	ὑάκινθος ἄριστος ἐν μονοτρόποις·
	οὐ μαργαρίτας· οὐ λίθον· οὐ χρυσίον·
	τὴν καλλονήν τε τῶν ὦδε θείων λόγων·
	σοφῶς ἀνευρὼν ἐξ ἔρωτος ἐνθέου
	ἔνθεν συνῆξε πλοῦτον· ὃς, μένει μόνος
	ῥεῖ γαρ πάντα γῆς· καὶ λόγος μένει μόνος +

Type(s)	[1955] Ἔσπευσαν ἄλλοι χρυσὸν εὑρεῖν ἐν βίῳ (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	METEORA - Mone Metamorphoseos 543 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 225r
Person(s)	Scribe Hyakinthos (14th c.) - PLP: XII.29448 (doulos)
Contextual information	Followed by two more scribal verses, incipit 'τὸν ἀχρεῖον οἰάκιθνον θ(εο)ῦ δοῦλε'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Comment	Cavallo (2006: 135) misread the folio number from Bees (1998: 540) catalogue to 259v and gives no text but a partial translation. A drawing of the picture can be found in Bees (1998: 541).
Image source(s)	http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=33&left=5&top=-262&site=INTF&image=32705/870401/4490/10/1275
Bibliography	Primary N. Bees, 1967, Τὰ χειρόγραφα των Μετεώρων : κατάλογος περιγραφικός των χειρογράφων κωδίκων των αποκειμένων εις τας μονὰς των Μετεώρων (vol. 1), Athens: 541 Secondary G. Cavallo, 2006, Lire à Byzance, Paris: 135
Number of verses	10
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'. Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Sarah-Helena Van den Brande, 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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