Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21221
(formerly occ/4958)

	ὁ πρῶτος ἑρμῆς μνημονεύσας ἐν βίω,
	τρίτον γενέσθαι καὶ σοφὸς τοσαυτάκις,
	ἐπωνομάσθη τρισμέγιστος εἰκότ(ως)·
	ὁ δεύτερος δὲ πανσόφ(ως) σαφηνίσας
	τὸν τοῦ πλάτωνος φαῖδρον ἐν τρισὶ βίβλ(οις),
	τρισόλβιος καλοῖτ' ἂν οὐκ ἄποτρόπου:+

Type(s)	[4658] Ὁ πρῶτος Ἑρμῆς μνημονευτὸς ἐν βίῳ (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana D 166 inf. [1351-1425]
Place in Manuscript	f. 77r
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Hermes Trismegistos Hermias of Alexandria < Egypt (5th c.) Plato (429 BC - 347 BC)
Bibliography	Secondary E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 2), Milan: 1040
Number of verses	6
Related occurrence(s)	[32477] NA [1496-1505] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III E 25 [1496-1505] (f. 130v) (6 verses) [23231] ὁ πρῶτος ἑρμῆς μνημονεύσας ἐν βίω [1251-1300] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1810 [1251-1300] (f. 93r) (6 verses) (6/6)
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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