Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22451
(formerly occ/6337)

	ἑρώτησις ὁμήρου πρὸς ἀλιεῖς

	ἄνδρες ἀπ' ἀρκαδίης ἁλιήτορες ἦ ῥ' \| ἔχομέν τι;
	ὅσσ’ ἕλομαν λιπόμεθα, \| ὅσσ’ οὐχ ἕλομεν φερόμεθα:·

Type(s)	[4635] Ἄνδρες ἀπ’ Ἀρκαδίης ἁλιήτορες ἦ ῥ’ ἔχομέν τι (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1486
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. app. IX 16 [10/01/1486]
Place in Manuscript	f. 404r
Person(s)	Scribe Ioannes Rhosos of Crete < Greece - RGK: I.178, II.237, III.298 - VGH: 187.B - PLP: X.24574 (presbyteros)
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink. Title repeated in the right margin.
Contextual information	Written at the end of the Iliad.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Homer (8th c. BC)
Bibliography	Primary F. Maltomini 2015, Una silloge di epigrammi su Omero (e alcuni inediti bizantini), Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 75, 151-175: 158, 170 F. Valerio 2016, Analecta Byzantina, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 16, 255-302: 270 Secondary E. Mioni, 1973, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Codices in classes nonam decimam undecimam inclusos et supplementa duo continens (vol. 3), Romae: 17
Number of verses	2
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki 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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