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	ὦ φίλος εἰ σοφὸς εἶ λάβε μ’ ἐς χέρας· εἰ δὲ πέφυκας
	νῆις μουσάων \| ῥῖψον ἃ μὴ νοέεις·
	εἰμὶ γὰρ οὐ πάντεσσι βατὸς, παῦροι δ’ ἀγάσαντο
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Type(s)	[2214] Ὦ φίλος, εἰ σοφὸς εἶ, λάβε μ’ ἐς χέρας· εἰ δέ γε πάμπαν (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1426-1475
Manuscript	SALAMANCA - Biblioteca Universitaria 15 (1-1-12) [1426-1475]
Place in Manuscript	f. 3v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written before Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian war'.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Nine Muses Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Image source(s)	https://gredos.usal.es/handle/10366/144464
Bibliography	Primary A. Tovar, 1963, Catalogus codicum Graecorum Universitatis Salamantinae. Collectio Universitatis antiqua (vol. 1), Salamanca: 17 Secondary T. Martínez Manzano, 2015, Historia del fondo manuscrito griego de la Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca: 136 (n. 91)
Number of verses	4
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) 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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