Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21772
(formerly occ/5630)

	(...)δε (δὲ) τετραπόδ(ων) γένεα κ(αὶ) ἦθος ἔειπε·
	πλάσσε (δὲ) ὑψημέδων θ(εὸ)ς ἄβροτον φῶτα \| φαείνον·
	δραξάμενο(ς) χείρεσσι λόγο(ς) χόον θῆκ(εν) ἐν ἔργῳ·
	εἰκόνα τὲ προσσέειπ(εν) (...)ὴν \| ἄρχειν τε κέλευεν·
	ζώων ἠπείροιο καὶ εἰναλίων τε ἁπάντων·+

Type(s)	[5055] Ὧδε δὲ τετραπόδων γένεα καὶ ἦθος ἔειπε (5 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. 60v
Palaeographical information	Written in the lower margin.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Basil the Great's homilies 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	5
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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