Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23905
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εἰ μὲν ἴσην ἰσχὺν τῆ γλώσση δημόσθενες ἔσχες
οὔποτ᾽ ἂν ἑλλήνων ἦρχεν ἀνὴρ μακέδων:-
Type(s) [3514] Εἰ μὲν ἴσην ἰσχὺν τῇ γλώσσῃ, Δημόσθενες, ἔσχες (2 verses)
Text source DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 1493
Manuscript PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1773 [1493]
Place in Manuscript f. 312v
Person(s)
Scribe
Bartholomaeus Comparinus (15th c.) - RGK: II.46, III.58 - VGH: 50.A
Contextual information The epigram is repeated three times (possibly by different hands) on the same folio. This first occurrence is followed by a Latin translation: 'Si tibi par linguae robur, Demosthenes, esset, haud Macedum regi Graecia capta foret:-'.
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s) Demosthenes of Athenai < Attike < Greece (384 BC - 322 BC)
Image source(s) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b107230041/f344.item
Bibliography

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: 72
Number of verses 2
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Kristoffel Demoen, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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