Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21189
(formerly occ/4925)

	(...) φύσις εὗρε· τεκοῦσα δ’ ἐπαύσατο μόχθων·
	εἰς ἕνα μοῦνον ὅμηρον ὅλ(ην) τρέψασα μενοιν(ήν):~

Type(s)	[4629] Εὗρε Φύσις μόλις εὗρε· τεκοῦσα δ’ ἐπαύσατο μόχθων (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1276
Manuscript	MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana I 4 sup. [1276]
Place in Manuscript	f. 227r
Person(s)	Scribe Meletios son of Neilos (13th c.) - PLP: VII.17729
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	This poem is the fifth in a series of eleven epigrams.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Homer (8th c. BC)
Bibliography	Primary F. Maltomini 2015, Una silloge di epigrammi su Omero (e alcuni inediti bizantini), Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 75, 151-175: 172 F. Valerio 2016, Analecta Byzantina, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 16, 255-302: 269 Secondary K. Demoen 2019, Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext, in M. Kanellou, C. Carey, I. Petrovic (eds.), Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era, Oxford, 66-84: 80 E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 1), Milan: 541
Number of verses	2
Related occurrence(s)	[24179] Εὗρε φύ(σ)(ις) μόλις εὗρε, τεκοῦσα δ’ ἐπαύσατο μόχθων [1291] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 139 [1291] (f. 243v) (2 verses) (2/2) [24111] Εὗρεν φύσις εὗρε τεκοῦσα δ’ ἐπαύσατο μόχθων [1466] LONDON - British Library - Harley 5600 [1466] (f. 13v) (2 verses) (2/2) [24218] εὗρε φύσις \| εὗρε τεκουσα δ’ \| ἐπαύσατο μόχθ(ων) [1276-1325] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 915 [1276-1325] (f. 196v) (2 verses) (2/2)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, 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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