Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26370
(formerly occ/10425)

	στίχοι εἰς τὸν φωκυλίδην :-

	Ὁ φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ ζήσας βίον·
	ὡς χρυσομύστης ὡς ἀπόστολος μέγ(ας)·
	ὡς ἀκροατὴς τῶν θεοῦ θεσπισμάτ(ων)
	κ(αὶ) μυσταγωγὸς τῶν ἀρίστων πρακτέ(ων)
	εὐαγγελικῶς ταῦτα λαλεῖ κ(αὶ) γράφει.
	εὔχρηστα τυγχάνοντος τοῖς ἐν τῷ βίῳ
	κ(αὶ) τοῖς μέλλουσι τρυφὰν σωτηριώδη·
	θεῖα νάμα(τα) ἐν πηγαῖς ἀεννάου :-

Type(s)	[3494] Ὁ Φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ ζήσας βίον (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2551 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 177v
Contextual information	Immediately followed by another epigram, inc. Ταῦτα δίκης ὁσίοισι θεῶν βουλεύματα φαίνει The epigram precedes the 'Carmina' by Phocylides.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Phocylides of Miletos < Caria < Asia Minor < Turkey (6th c. BC)
Comment	Other occurrences of the same type usually have 5 or 6 verses. In this manuscript, two verses were added at the end of the epigram. Omont (1888:3): 'Phocylidis poema, et versus in eum.' The manuscript is dated to the 15th-16th century.
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10723122b/f186.item
Bibliography	Secondary H. Omont, 1888, Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Ancien fonds grec. Belles lettres (vol. 3), Paris: 3
Number of verses	8
Related occurrence(s)	[20810] Ὁ Φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ ζήσας βίον [15th c.] ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados - Metochion Pan. Taphou 146 [15th c.] (f. 110r) (5 verses) (1/8) [20824] Ὁ Φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ ζήσας βίον [15th c.] ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados - Metochion Pan. Taphou 509 [15th c.] (f. 132r) (6 verses) (1/8) [20826] NA [15th c.] ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados - Metochion Pan. Taphou 509 [15th c.] (f. 151r) (6 verses) [19404] ὁ φωκυλίδης· εὐπρεπῆ ζήσας βίον [1314-1400] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 55, Cod. 7 [1314-1400] (f. 296r) (5 verses) (5/8) [23645] Ὦ Φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ ζήσας βίον [1376-1425] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. II C 37 [1376-1425] (f. 360r) (5 verses) (2/8) [23519] Ὁ φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ ζήσας βίον [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 64 [15th c.] (f. 45v) (6 verses) (6/8) [23520] ὁ φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ ζήσ(ας) βίον [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 68 [15th c.] (f. 121v) (5 verses) (5/8) [30322] Ὁ φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ ζήσας βίον [1475-1500] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - lat. 16707 [1475-1500] (f. 1v) (6 verses) (6/8) [23738] ωκυλίδης εὐπρεπη ζήσας βίον [1451-1600] PARMA - Biblioteca Palatina - palat. 260 [1451-1600] (f. 16r) (6 verses) (6/8) [20230] Ὁ Φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ ζήσας βίον [1474] PERUGIA - Biblioteca Comunale Augusta 495 (G 84) [1474] (f. 151r) (2 verses) (1/8) [20728] Ὦ Φωκυλίδης εὐπρεπῆ (...) [1494] SALAMANCA - Biblioteca Universitaria 243 (olim 1-2-20) [1494] (f. 71r) (6 verses) (2/8) [22382] NA [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - phil. gr. 274 [15th c.] ((unsure) f. 246r-246v) (? verses) display 9 more occurrences (12 in total) hide 9 occurrences (12 in total)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Sien De Groot Transcriber(s) Sien De Groot Contributor(s) Sien De Groot The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Permalink	https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/26370

Last modified: 2020-09-21.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.