Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22125
(formerly occ/5997)

πρόφρων τοι τόδε δούκ᾽ ἀντώνιε δῶρον ἀγαυόν
βησσαρί(ων), ὅ σε γείνατο πνεύματι, δέλτον ὁμήρου
ὄφρα σε ἤθεα φωνὴν ἑλλάδα, μήδεα πυκνά
ἱπποσύνην τε μαχὴν τ᾽ ἐνύω καί φύλοπιν αἰνήν
δηϊοτῆτα τε πᾶσαν κεδμμά τε πάντα διδάξη
κείνου πατρὸς ἐπάξια· τοῦ, γένος εὔχεο εἶναι:-
Type(s) [3254] Πρόφρων τοι τόδε δῶκ᾽ ἀντώνιε Δῶρον ἀγαυόν (6 verses)
Text source DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 15th c.
Manuscript VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 148 (coll. 488) [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. Iv
Person(s)
Patron
Basileios Bessarion (1399-1400 - 18/11/1472) - RGK: I.41, II.61, III.77 - VGH: 59.E - PLP: II.2707 (kardinalios)
Palaeographical information The epigram is repeated twice, with slight variations.
δούκ᾽ ἀντώνιε e βονκόντη πόρε eadem manus supra lineam correxit
4 τ᾽ ἐνύω in margine
Contextual information According to Mioni (1981: 209) ff. I-II were taken from the Marc. gr. 456, which contains the Iliad and the Odyssey. In its original context the poem used to function as a book epigram.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s) Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)
Bibliography

Primary

E. Mioni, 1981, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Thesaurus Antiquus. Codices 1-299 (vol. 1), Rome: 209
Number of verses 6
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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