Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 27067
(formerly occ/11141)

	θρεῖ μου δέμας ἀνθηρᾶς· ὅ τέθηλε· θαλεί(ας)
	ἄνθεά τε ψυχῆς, νῦν (?) βλέφαρ' εἴπερ ἔχηις:

Type(s)	[7412] ἌΘρει μου δέμας ἀνθηρᾶς, ὃ τέθηλε, Θαλείας (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1480
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480]
Place in Manuscript	f. 118v
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Raoul Kabakes (15th c.) - RGK: I.95, II.128e, III.162 - VGH: 102.A, 295.B - PLP: V.10016
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in the lower margin.
Contextual information	Written at the beginning of the third book of Herodotus' History, named after the Muse. θάλεια is written in the upper margin, also in red ink.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Nine Muses
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1359.pt.1/121
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola, A. Ellis 2024, The Lost Poems on the Muses by Theodoros Gazes, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 64(3), 480-508: 506
Number of verses	2
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julián Bértola Transcriber(s) Julián Bértola Contributor(s) 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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