Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22150
(formerly occ/6030)

	-: πολυδεύκους ἔπη εἰς κόμαδον τὸν βασιλέα· :-

	Χρυσοῦ μεταλλεῦ καὶ γεωργὲ σπερμάτ(ων)·
	τρέφεις κατολβίζεις με καμάτων δίχα.
	ἀνηρότως ηὔλησα τὴν πανσπερμί(αν)·
	ἀμαλθί(ας) εὕρημα τὴν βίβλον κέρας·
	κάμνεις ὀρύττων τὰς πολυκρόνους φλέβ(ας)·
	ὡς αὐτὸς ἀκάμαντον ἕξω τὴν πόσιν·
	τὴν γοῦν ἀμοιβὴν χάριν ὑψόθεν λάβοις·
	ἂν εὐσέβειαν τοῖς πόνοις κεραννύης:-

Type(s)	[2510] Χρυσοῦ μεταλλεῦ καὶ γεωργὲ σπερμάτων (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 58, Cod. 26 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 15r
Palaeographical information	The title and the initials of each lines are in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes the Onomasticon by Julius Pollux.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Julius Pollux of Naukratis < Egypt (2nd c.) Lucius Aurelius Commodus (31/08/161 - 31/12/192)
Image source(s)	http://mss.bmlonline.it/s.aspx?Id=AWOItNKhI1A4r7GxML9p&c=Iulii%20Pollucis%20Libri%20onomastici#/oro/39
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 469
Number of verses	8
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, 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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