Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26431
(formerly occ/10488)

	Εἴ τις λατίνοις ἰσχυρὰ πέμπειν βέλη,
	καὶ συλλογισμοὺς φιλονικίας πάσης,
	ἀνατρέπειν βούλοιτο ῥᾶστα σὺν τάχει,
	οἷς πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ἐξ ἀσυνέτου τρόπου
	χρῆσθαι φιλοῦσι διαλεκτικῆ, τέχνη,
	τοὺς εἰς ἐκείνους ὠδὶ συντεταγμένους,
	παρὰ σοφοῦ τοῦ βαρλαὰμ καὶ λατίνου,
	διελθέτω μάλιστα σὺν προθυμία.
	(και) γνοὺς ἐντεχνῶς τὴν δύναμιν τῶν λόγων,
	τὴν τῆς προνοίας ὑπερυμνείτω χάριν,
	ἀνθ᾽ ὧν λατίνων ἐκ φυλῆς παρηγμένος,
	ὁ κατ᾽ ἐκείνων συγγεγραφ(ὼς) ταῦτ᾽ ἔνι:-

Type(s)	[2457] Εἴ τις Λατίνοις ἰσχυρὰ πέμπειν βέλη (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1278 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 29v
Person(s)	Scribe Gennadios II Scholarios (1400-1405 - 1472) - RGK: I.71, II.92, III.119 - VGH: 84.D - PLP: XI.27304 (patriarches of Konstantinoupolis < Turkey)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Barlaam of Seminara < Calabria < Southern Italy < Italy (1290 - 1348) - PLP: II.2284 (monachos)
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10722752h/f34.item
Number of verses	12
Related occurrence(s)	[21627] Εἴ τις Λατίνοις ἰσχυρὰ πέμπειν βέλη [15th c.] PATRAS - Mone Omplou 1 [15th c.] (f. 159r) (2 verses) (1/12) [17937] Εεἰ τις λατίνοις ἰσχυρὰ πέμπειν βέλη [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1717 [15th c.] (f. 1v) (12 verses) (12/12)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Ilse De Vos The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Last modified: 2022-01-07.