Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21777
(formerly occ/5635)

τὸ μέτρον οὕτω τῶν ἰάμβων μοι νό[ει·
καὶ τοὺς πόδας μὲν ἡ μέλισσα δεικν[ύτω
τῶν συλλαβῶν δὲ τὴν ἀρίθμησιν κύκλο[ν
τὸν ζωδιακὸν εἰσορῶν μάνθανέ μοι.
θέλων δὲ μετρεῖν καὶ στίχους πλέκειν, φ[ίλε,
ἅπασαν ἐν νῷ τοῦ σκοποῦ τὴν εἰκόνα
προσλαμβάνων ἄριστα τοὺς στίχους πλέκε.
πρῶτον μὲν οὖν καὶ τρίτον ἢ πέμπτον πόδα
ἴαμβος ἢ σπονδεῖος εὐπρεπιζέτω,
τὸν δεύτερον δὲ καὶ τέταρτον ἀξίως
ἴαμβον ἁπλοῦν εἰσφέρων ἑτοιμάσεις,
ἔκτος δ’ ἴαμβος τέρπεται κόσμον φέρων
καὶ πυρριχίῳ τὴν κάραν ὑψοῦ φέροει.
ἔστι μὲν οὖν ὁ πυρρίχιος μὲν λόγος·
σπονδεῖος Αἴας ἐκ μακρῶν χρόνων δύο·
Λάχης δ’ ἴαμβος καὶ λέβης τε καὶ θέων.
ἰδοῦ τὸ πᾶν εἴληφας ἐν βραχεῖ μέτρον.
μαθὼν τὸ μέτρον, εὐφυῶς πλέκε στίχου[ς].
ἰδὲ μέτρον ἰαμβικὸν ὦ φίλος ὧδε.
Type(s) [2559] Τὸ μέτρον οὕτω τῶν ἰάμβων μοι νόει (19 verses)
Text source D. Rasljic 2022, Two Greek Paratext Poems from the Manuscript Q No. 2 of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Philologia Classica, 17(1), 113-124: 117-118
Text status Text completely known
Date 15th c.
Manuscript SAINT PETERSBURG - Rossijskaja Akademija Nauk, Biblioteka (BAN) - Inostrannyh rukopisei Q N° 2 [1474]
Place in Manuscript f. 54v
Palaeographical information 4 ζωδιακὸν ] ζωδιακῶν ante corr. (Rasljic (2022: 118))
13 φέροει ] φέροι ante corr. (Rasljic (2022: 118))
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Reader-related epigram
Subject(s) Grammar
Bibliography

Primary

I. Lebedeva, 1973, Описание Рукописного отдела Библиотеки Академии наук СССР. Греческие рукописи (vol. 5), Leningrad: 76
Number of verses 19
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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