Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35424

	Εὐκλείδης νόον ὄξυν᾽ ἀειζώοις γραμμαῖσι· \|
	πάντ(α) τὲ ἀτρεκέ(ως) ἐξερέεινε βροτ(οῖς)· \|
	ὁππόσα μήσατο τηλεθόωσα φύσ(ις) συμβαίν(ειν) \|
	σχήμασ(ιν) ἥδ᾽ ὄγκ(οις) θειμέλιον γε τόδε· \|
	πάσης μ(ὲν) τεκτηνάμ(εν)ο(ς) σοφίης κόσμω δὲ
	παντί· \| ἑῆς προλιπ(ὼν) σύμβολ(ον) εὐμαθί(ης):-

Type(s)	[3613] Εὐκλείδης νόον ὤξυν’ ἀειζώοις γραμμαῖσι (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	12th c.
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - phil. gr. 31 [12th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 254r
Palaeographical information	Written by the same hand as the main text. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Euclides' Elements. Below the book epigram, a geometrical figure was drawn, under which was written "ΤΕΛΟΣ ΕΥΚΛΕΙΔΟΥ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΩΝ".
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Euclid (4th c. BC - 3rd c. BC)
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_3360050&order=1&view=SINGLE
Bibliography	Secondary F. Acerbi 2014, Types, function, and organization of the collections of scholia to the Greek mathematical treatises, Trends in Classics, 6(1), 115–169: 118
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Quinten Goethals 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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