Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23803
(formerly occ/7747)

	εἴ με πλάτων οὐ γράψε δύω ἐγένοντο πλάτωνες·
	σωκρατικῶν ὀάρων ἄνθεα πάντα φέρω·
	ἀλλὰ νόθον με τέλεσσε παναίτιος ὅς ῥ᾽ ἐτέλεσσε·
	καὶ ψυχὴν θνητὴν· κἀμὲ νόθον τελέσαι:

Type(s)	[3309] Εἴ με Πλάτων οὐ γράψε, δύω ἐγένοντο Πλάτωνες (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	12th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1808 [12th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 22r
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies Plato's Phaido.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Panaetius of Rhodos < Greece (185 BC - 109 BC) Plato (429 BC - 347 BC)
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10501715p/f55
Bibliography	Primary H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. IX-XI (vol. 3), München: 218 Secondary K. Demoen 2019, Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext, in M. Kanellou, C. Carey, I. Petrovic (eds.), Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era, Oxford, 66-84: 70
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[19184] εἴ με πλάτων οὐ γράψε, δύω ἐγένοντο πλάτωνες [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 6, Cod. 22 [15th c.] (f. 86v) (4 verses) (4/4) [21361] Εἴ με πλάτ(ων) οὐ γράψε, δύω ἐγένοντο πλάτωνες [15th c.] MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 514 [15th c.] (f. 66r) (4 verses) (4/4)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki 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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