Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21361
(formerly occ/5165)

Εἰς τὴν αρχην τοῦ φαίδωνος: Ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὸν φαίδωνα:
 
Εἴ με πλάτ(ων) οὐ γράψε, δύω ἐγένοντο πλάτωνες·
σωκρατικ(ῶν) ὀάρ(ων) ἄνθεα π(άν)τα | φέρω·
ἀλλὰ νόθον μετέλεσσε π(αν)ναίτιος· ὅς ρ' ἐτέλεσσε·
(καὶ) ψυχ(ὴν) θνητ(ὴν) | κἀμὲ νόθον τελέσαι:·
Type(s) [3309] Εἴ με Πλάτων οὐ γράψε, δύω ἐγένοντο Πλάτωνες (4 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 15th c.
Manuscript MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 514 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 66r
Contextual information The epigram is written at the end of Plato's Phaedo.
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Genre(s)
Subject(s)
Image source(s) http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00107441/image_155
Bibliography

Primary

I. Hardt, 1812, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum Bibliothecae Regiae Bavaricae. Cod. CCCCLXXIII-DLXXX continens (vol. 5), Munich: 264

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: 70
Number of verses 4
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Kristoffel Demoen

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