Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 27083
(formerly occ/11157)

	στίχ(οι) ἡρωϊκοί:

	οἶδ' ὅτι θνητὸς ἔφυν καὶ ἐφ' ἅμερος ἀλλ’ ὅτ' ἄν ἄστρων
	μαστεύω πυκινὰς ἀμφιδρόμους ἕλικας
	οὐκ ἔτ’ ἐπιψαύων γαίης ποσὶν ἀλλὰ παρ’ αὐτῶι·
	χριστῶι θεοτρεφέος πίμπλαμαι ἀμβροσίης:-

Type(s)	[2326] Οἶδ’, ὅτι θνατὸς ἐγὼ καὶ ἐφάμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	10th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1853 [10th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 67v
Palaeographical information	Written by one of the tenth-century hands that copied the manuscript. The last verse is repeated with some variants by another hand right after the epigram: χριστῶ θειοτρεφοῦς πίμπλαμαι ἀμβροσίης:
Contextual information	Written at the end of Aristotle's Physica and before Aristotle's De Caelo.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Aristoteles (384 BC - 322 BC) Zeus
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84192492/f148.item
Bibliography	Primary M. Hecquet-Devienne 2000, Les mains du Parisinus Graecus 1853, Scrittura e Civiltà, 24, 103-171: 127, 130 Secondary R. Cantore, 2013, Per la storia del testo di Erodoto: studi sulla famiglia romana, Bologna: 136
Number of verses	4
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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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