Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21766
(formerly occ/5624)

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	γαίης δ' ἐν γυάλοισιν \| ἑνός τε ἐπόντος ἀπείρων· \|
	ὤφθη δ’ αὐλαίη ἐκ χάεος \| αῖα λώρη· \|
	θαῦμα μέγ’ ὡς ἐκέλευεν \| ἐρισθενέος λόγος αἰπύς· \|
	ἤπειρον δ’ ἐκάλλεσε γαίαν \| ὑγράν δε θάλασσαν·++

Type(s)	[5050] Γαίης δ' ἐν γυάλοισιν ἔνερθε δὲ πόντος ἀπείρων (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	ROME - Biblioteca Angelica gr. 89 (B.2.10) [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 24r
Contextual information	The epigram precedes Basil the Great's fifth homily on the Hexaemeron.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Basil the Great (330-379) (episkopos of Kaisareia < Cappadocia)
Image source(s)	http://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3Awww.internetculturale.sbn.it%2FTeca%3A20%3ANT0000%3ACNMD%5C%5C0000117110&mode=all&teca=MagTeca+-+ICCU
Bibliography	Primary P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, G. Muccio 1896, Index codicum graecorum bibliothecae Angelicae. Praefatus est Aeneas Piccolomini, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica (SIFC), 4, 7-184: 134 C. Samberger, 1968, Catalogi codicum graecorum qui in minoribus bibliothecis Italicis asservantur (vol. 2), Leipzig: 148
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas 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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