Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34901

	Περὶ μέτρου ἰαμβικοῦ

	Τὸ μέτρον οὕτω τῶν ἰάμβων μοι νόει·
	καὶ τοὺς πόδας μὲν ἡ μέλισσα δεικνύτω
	τῶν συλλαβῶν δὲ τὴν ἀρίθμησιν κύκλον
	τὸν ζωδιακὸν εἰσορῶν μάνθανέ μοι.
	θέλων δὲ μετρεῖν καὶ στίχους πλέκειν, φίλος,
	ἅπασαν ἐν νῷ τοῦ σκοποῦ τὴν εἰκόνα
	προσλαμβάνων ἄριστα τοὺς στίχους πλέκε.
	πρῶτον μὲν οὖν καὶ τρίτον ἢ πέμπτον πόδα
	ἴαμβος ἢ σπονδεῖος εὐτρεπιζέτω,
	τὸν δεύτερον δὲ καὶ τέταρτον ἀξίως
	ἴαμβον ἁπλοῦν εἰσφέρων ἑτοιμάσεις,
	ἔκτος δ’ ἰάμβου τέρπεται κόσμον φέρων
	καὶ πυρριχίῳ τὴν κάραν ὑψοῦ φέρει.
	ἔστι μὲν οὖν σοι πυρρίχιος μὲν λόγος ·
	σπονδεῖος Αἴας ἐκ μακρῶν χρόνων δύο ·
	Λάχης δ’ ἴαμβος καὶ λέβης τε καὶ θέων.
	ἰδοῦ τὸ πᾶν εἴληφας ἐν βραχεῖ μέτρον.

Type(s)	[2559] Τὸ μέτρον οὕτω τῶν ἰάμβων μοι νόει (19 verses)
Text source	D. Rasljic 2022, Two Greek Paratext Poems from the Manuscript Q No. 2 of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Philologia Classica, 17(1), 113-124: 117-118
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - phil. gr. 279 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 86r
Contextual information	The poem is written at the end of Aeschylus' 'Seven against Thebes'. It is preceded by another work on metre on ff. 83r-85v.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Grammar
Comment	The title is taken from Hunger (1961: 381).
Bibliography	Primary H. Hunger, 1961, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Codices Historici. Codices Philosophici et Philologici (vol. 1), Vienna: 381
Number of verses	17
Related occurrence(s)	[21777] τὸ μέτρον οὕτω τῶν ἰάμβων μοι νό[ει [15th c.] SAINT PETERSBURG - Rossijskaja Akademija Nauk, Biblioteka (BAN) - Inostrannyh rukopisei Q N° 2 [1474] (f. 54v) (19 verses) (17/17) [34908] Τὸ μέτρον οὕτω τῶν ἰάμβων μοι μέτρου [16th c.] SAINT PETERSBURG - Rossijskaja Nacional'naja biblioteka (RNB) - Ф. № 906 (Gr.) 731 [15th c.] (f. 2r) (17 verses) (17/17)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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