Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21070
(formerly occ/4794)

	ὦ φίλος· εἰ σοφὸς εἶ, λάβε μ’ ἐς χέρας· εἰ \| δὲ πέφυκας
	νῆις μουσάων, ῥίψον ἃ μὴ νο-\|έεις·
	εἰμὶ γὰρ οὐ πάντεσι βατὸς· παῦροι δ’ ἀγά\|σαντο
	θουκυδίδην ὀλόρου κεκροπίδην τὸ γένος:-

Type(s)	[2214] Ὦ φίλος, εἰ σοφὸς εἶ, λάβε μ’ ἐς χέρας· εἰ δέ γε πάμπαν (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. 69, Cod. 16 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 256v
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Angelos (15th c.) (iatros, nosokomos)
Contextual information	The epigram is repeated five times on the same folio. The first occurrence is followed by 'τέλος τῶν θυκυδίδου ξυγγραφῶν'.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Nine Muses Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000824118&keyworks=plut.69.16#page/520/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1770, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 3), Florence: 638 B. Mondrain 2000, Jean Argyropoulos professeur à Constantinople et ses auditeurs médecins, d'Andronic Eparque à Demetrios Angelos., in C. Scholz, G. Makris (eds.), Polypleuros Nous. Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag, München, 223-250: 243
Number of verses	4
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