Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23483
(formerly occ/7413)

Τοῦ διδασκάλου κυρίου μιχαὴλ τοῦ ἀποστόλη στίχοι οἱ αὐτοὶ ἡρωικοὶ καὶ πολιτικοὶ·
 
Μερόπεσσιν ἔθηκ(ας) ἄληκτον θάμβος πᾶσιν,
ὑσμήνην ὃς ἐτέκτανας μυῶν ἠδὲ βατράχων·
τῆς σοφίης πηγὴν φύλα πάντα ὅμηρόν τε θεῖον
ἀνθρώπων ἀπερείσια ἐκπάγλως τιέουσιν·
θεῖον ἐν ἀνθρώποισι τίγρης πέπραγας ἔργον
οὗ φάτις οὔποτ᾽ ὀλεῖ τ’ ἐπὶ γαίη τ᾽ ἠδ᾽ ἐπὶ πόλω
εἰ μερόπων φύλα θεῖον ὅμηρον θεὸν δοξάζειν
οὐ προσίενται ἐπεὶ ψεύδει ἔπεταί γε,
ἀλλ᾽ ἀναφανδὸν ὑπάρχειν ἡμίθεον δοξασάντων
ὃν γε μέλης καλίρους γείνατο μελπομένης.
Type(s) [5818] Μερόπεσσιν ἔθηκας ἄληκτον θάμβος πᾶσιν (10 verses)
Text source DBBE
Text status Text completely known
Date 1495-1513
Manuscript MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 582a [1495-1513]
Place in Manuscript f. 204r
Metre(s)
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s) Homer (8th c. BC)
Comment Meter: Dactylic hexameter and political verse.
Glosses are written above the verses.
The epigram was copied in this manuscript by the printed edition of Batrachomyomachia prepared by Laonicus Cretensis in 1486.
Image source(s) http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00077167/image_429
Bibliography

Secondary

F. Berger, 2014, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Codices graeci Monacenses 575-650 (Handschriften des Supplements) (vol. 9), Wiesbaden: 47
Number of verses 10
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Transcriber(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki

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