Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36813

	ἑπτὰ σοφ(ῶν) ἐρέω κατ’ ἔπος πόλιν οὔνομα φωνὴν·
	μέτρον μὲν κλεόβουλος ὁ λύδιος εἶπ(εν) ἄριστον·
	χῖλος δ’ ἐν κοίλη λακεδαίμονι γνῶθι σεαυτ(ὸν)·
	ὃς δὲ κόρινθον ἔναιε χόλον κρατέειν περίανδρος·
	πιττακὸς οὐδὲν ἄγαν θ' ὃς ἔην γένος ἐκ μιτυλήνης·
	τέρμα δ’ ὁρᾶν βιότοιο σόλων ἱεραῖς ἐν ἀθήναις·
	τοὺς πλέονας κακί(ους) δὲ βίας ἀπέφηνε πριηνεὺς·
	φεύγειν δ' ἐγγύην θαλλῆς ὁ μιλήσιος ηὔδα:·

Type(s)	[3518] Ἑπτὰ σοφῶν ἐρέω κατ’ ἔπος πόλιν, οὔνομα, φωνήν (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1445-1453
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 541 [1445-1453]
Place in Manuscript	f. 57v
Person(s)	Scribe Andronikos Kallistos (15th c.) - RGK: I.18, II.25, III.31 - VGH: 30.F - PLP: V.10484
Palaeographical information	The first verse and the initials of the other verses are written in a different colour of ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Pseudo-Phocylides' gnomic verses, arguably a piece of wisdom.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Bias of Priene < Asia Minor < Turkey (6th c. BC) Chilon of Sparta < Laconia < Peloponnesos < Greece (6th c. BC) Cleobulus of Lindos < Rhodos < Greece (6th c. BC) Periander of Korinthos < Corinthia < Peloponnesos < Greece (7th c. BC - 585 BC) Pittacus of Mytilene < Lesbos < Greece (640 BC - 568 BC) Seven Sages Solon of Athenai < Attike < Greece (630 BC - 560 BC) Thales of Miletos < Caria < Asia Minor < Turkey (7th c. BC - 6th c. BC)
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11004936m/f55.item
Bibliography	Secondary H. Omont, 1888, Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Ancien fonds grec. Belles lettres (vol. 3), Paris: 275 L. Orlandi, 2023, Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism, Berlin/Boston: 312
Number of verses	8
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