Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22185
(formerly occ/6063)

+ ὀρ(...) φύλασσε· τοῦ νόος σου τὰς φρένας
καὶ κοιλίαν δάμαζε καὶ γλῶσσαν πλέον·
καὶ τὴν στενὴν δίωκε τοῦ βίου πύλην·
καὶ φεῦγε κόσμον καὶ νέος, γενοῦ γέρων +
Type(s) [2861] Ὀρθὰς φύλαττε τοῦ νοός σου τὰς φρένας (4 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 12th-15th c.
Manuscript FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 20 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 1r
Palaeographical information Written by a later hand, the manuscript dates to the 11th century.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Reader-related epigram
Comment The first word is partially not readable.
Image source(s) http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000871738&keyworks=plut.70.20#page/19/mode/1up
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

K. Bentein, K. Demoen 2012, The Reader in Eleventh-Century Book Epigrams, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 69-88: 75
Number of verses 4
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Sien De Groot, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Lotte van Olmen

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