Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21374
(formerly occ/5182)

ἐπιγράμματα εἰς τοῦ ὁμήρου ἔναισιν διὰ τὸν δαμιάνον γουιδότον τὸν ἕνετον πεποιημένα καὶ τοῦτο τὸ βιβλίον καὶ τῆς ὀδυσσείας γεγραφότα.
 
Ἕσπετε τοῦδε μόνως λαοί ποιήματα πάντες·
ῥήματα τῶν ἄλλων πρῶτον Ὅμηρος ἔφη·
γνώμης ὅσσα Μάρων ἀγαθοῦ καὶ νοήματος εἶπεν·
ἤ τις ῥητήρων· ταῦτα καὶ μοῦνος ᾄδει·
ταῖς ἀγοραῖς γνώμην, ἀρετὰς πολεμοῦσιν ὀπάζεις·
ἱερὰ θεῶν ῥέξας· πᾶσι καὶ κόσμον ἔχεις
δείξας Ἀχιλλῆος νικᾶσθαι ῥεῖα μαχοῦντας·
φάντας Ὀδυσσῆος· σοῦ παρὰ πάντα νόον·
ἥλιος οὐρανόθεν σελαγεῖ· φῶς γῆθεν Ὁμήρου
ἄκτισιν ἠέλιος· φρεσσὶν Ὅμηρε πρέπεις.
ὅστις ἄρα πρώτην ἀρνεῖται δόξαν Ὁμήρῳ·
πῶς ἀγαθὸν τοῦτον, πῶς καὶ φρονοῦντα λέγω;
Type(s) [6255] Ἕσπετε τοῦδε μόνως λαοί ποιήματα πάντες (12 verses)
Text source D. Murphy 1998, Greek Epigrams and Manuscripts of Damiano Guidotto of Venice, Renaissance Studies, 12, 476-494: 477
Text status Text completely known
Date 1476-1500
Manuscript NEW YORK - Columbia University Library, Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Plimpton MS 3 [1491-1510]
Place in Manuscript f. 70v
Person(s)
Scribe
Damianus Guidotus of Venice < Veneto < Italy (15th-16th c.) - RGK: I.89, II.119 - VGH: 438.A
Contextual information It is followed by the epigram 'Χαῖρε γέρον πάσης τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἀγλαὲ κόσμος'.
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s) Homer (8th c. BC)
Bibliography

Primary

S. Ives 1942, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Descriptions of the Plimpton Manuscripts as Recorded in the De Ricci " Census ", Speculum, 17(1), 33-49: 34

Secondary
Number of verses 12
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri

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