Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23129
(formerly occ/7022)

	+ ὄστις γὰρ οὐκ εἴωθεν γεύεσθαι κακῶν, \|
	φέρει μέν, ἀλγεῖ δ’ αὐχεν’ ἐντιθεὶς ζυγῶ \|
	θανὼν δ’ ἂν εἴην μάλλον εὐτυχέστερο(ς),
	ἢ ζῶν \| τὸ γὰρ ζῆν μὲν καλῶς μέγας πόνος \|
	κἀγὼ γὰρ ἦν ποτ’ ἀλλὰ νῦν οὐκέτ’ εἴμι· \|
	τὸν πάντα δ’ ὄλβον ἥμαρ ἓν μ’ ἀφείλετο.+

Type(s)	[5772] Ὅστις γὰρ οὐκ εἴωθεν γεύεσθαι κακῶν (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	12th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1711 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 394v
Contextual information	4 μὴ καλῶς Odorico
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10723005g/f298.item
Bibliography	Primary C. De Boor, 1963, Theophanis Chronographia, Leipzig: 379 P. Odorico 2012, Poésies à la marge, réflexions personnelles? Quelques observations sur les poésies du Parisinus graecus 1711, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 207-224: 219 A. Sakellaridou-Sotiroudi, 1989, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung des 'Georgius Continuatus' (Redaktion A), Thessaloniki: 28
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Julián Bértola, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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