Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 33178

	Ὦ φίλος εἰ σοφὸς εἶ, λαβέ μ’ ἐς χέρας, εἰ δὲ πέφυκας
	Νῆις μουσάων, ῥίψον ἃ μὴ νοέεις,
	Εἰμὶ γ(ὰρ) οὐ πάντεσσι βατὸς παῦροι δ’ ἀγάσαντο
	Θουκίδιδην ὀλόρου κεκροπίδην τὸ γένος.

Type(s)	[2214] Ὦ φίλος, εἰ σοφὸς εἶ, λάβε μ’ ἐς χέρας· εἰ δέ γε πάμπαν (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1251-1300
Manuscript	LONDON - British Library - Add. 11727 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. IIIr
Palaeographical information	Written by a later, 13th century-hand, identified as M2 by Kleinlogel - Alpers (2019: 28, 155).
Contextual information	The epigram is written twice in this manuscript (on f. IIv and f. IIIr), by two different later hands.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Nine Muses Thucydides (5th c. BC)
Image source(s)	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_11727_fs004r
Bibliography	Primary A. Kleinlogel, K. Alpers (eds.), 2019, Scholia Graeca in Thucydidem. Scholia vetustiora et Lexicon Thucydideum Patmense, Berlin: 155
Number of verses	4
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