Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21412
(formerly occ/5447)

	ὅμηρος αὐτοῦ γυμνᾶσαι γνῶσιν θέλων:-
	τῶν βατράχων ἔπλασε κ(αὶ) μυῶν μύθ(ων):-
	ἔνθεν παρορμῶν πρὸς μίμησιν τ(οὺς) νέ(ους):-

Type(s)	[2274] Ὅμηρος αὐτοῦ γυμνάσαι γνῶσιν θέλων (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1451-1600
Manuscript	PARMA - Biblioteca Palatina - palat. 260 [1451-1600]
Place in Manuscript	f. 27r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes the Batrachomyomachia and is preceded by the words 'ὁμήρου βατραχομυομαχία:-'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Homer (8th c. BC)
Image source(s)	http://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3Awww.internetculturale.sbn.it%2FTeca%3A20%3ANT0000%3AN%3ACNMD0000240314&mode=all&teca=MagTeca+-+ICCU
Bibliography	Primary E. Martini, 1893, Catalogo di manoscritti greci esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane (vol. 1.1), Milan: 166 Secondary P. Eleuteri, 1993, I manoscriti greci della biblioteca Palatina di Parma, Milano: 26
Number of verses	3
Related occurrence(s)	[29754] Ομηρος αὐτοῦ γυμνᾶσαι γνῶσιν θέλων [1400-1500] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1310 (f. 409r) (3 verses) (3/3) [17708] Ὅμηρος αὐτοῦ γυμνάσαι γνῶσιν θέλων [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 49 [15th c.] (f. 176r) (3 verses) (3/3)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, 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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