Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22323
(formerly occ/6206)

+ στίχοι ἡρωϊκοὶ εἰς τ(ὴν) πτολεμαίου γεωγραφί(αν):-
 
Ἐν γραμμαῖς τ(ὸν) κόσμον ἀριθμηθέντα νόησον:-
Ἄρκτ(ους), ὠ|κεανὸν δύσ(ιν), ἀντολίην τε· νότον τε·
Χεῖμα, θέρος φυσι|κάς τ’ ἀτραπ(οὺς), σκολιάς τε κελεύθ(ους):
Αἰθίοπ(άς) τʹ ἀνδρανεῖς, | γερμαν(ῶν), δύσμορα φῦλα:
Σαυρομάτας χοίροισιν ἐοικότας· | ἥ(δε) (καὶ) αὐτῆς·
Αἰνομόρου σκυθί(ης) χαλεπ(ὸν) γένο(ς), ἄχρις ἐς ἠῶ: |
Ἰνδῶν τε σηρῶν τε τὸ, γὰρ πέρας ἀντολίης γῆς:-
Type(s) [3244] Ἐν γραμμαῖς τὸν κόσμον ἀριθμηθέντα νόησον (7 verses)
Text source DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th c.
Manuscript VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 516 (coll. 904) [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 116r
Palaeographical information Title and initial letters of each line in red ink.
Contextual information The epigram is written at the end of Claudius Ptolemy's Geography.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Claudius Ptolemy (2nd c.)
Bibliography

Primary

E. Mioni, 1985, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Thesaurus Antiquus. Codices 300-625 (vol. 2), Rome: 383
Number of verses 7
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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