Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35428

	Εὐκλείδ(ης) νόον ὄξυν᾽ ἀειζώ(οις) γραμμαῖσι·
	πάντ(α) τὲ ἀτρεκέ(ως) ἐξ ἐρέεινε βροτ(οῖς)·
	ὁππόσα μήσατο τηλεθόωσα φύ(σις) συμβαίν(ειν)·
	σχήμ(α)σ(ιν) ἥδ᾽ ὄγκ(οις) θειμέλιόν γε τόδε·
	πάσ(ης) μ(ὲν) τεκτηναμ(έν)ο(ς) σοφίης κοσμω (δὲ) παντὶ·
	ἑῆς προλιπ(ὼν) σύμβολ(ον) εὐμαθ(ής):·

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	1251-1300
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 28, Cod. 6 [1251-1300]
Place in Manuscript	f. 298r
Palaeographical information	Written by the same hand as the main text. The initial is written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram was written at the end of Euclides' Elements. Below the book epigram, a geometrical figure was drawn.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Euclid (4th c. BC - 3rd c. BC)
Image source(s)	https://tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/plutei/id/518958/rec/1
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) Quinten Goethals 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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