Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2335
(formerly typ/399)

Τῶν εὐτυχούντων πάντες ἄνθρωποι φίλοι
τῶν δυστυχούντων οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸς ὁ γεννήτωρ.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Comment The poem also occurs in:
- the 16th-century manuscript Sofia, Cărkovno-istoričeski i archiven institut 808 (f. 86v), where it is written by a 17th-century hand filling a blank portion of the page (Getov 2014: 26);
- the 15th-century manuscript Sofia, Cărkovno-istoričeski i archiven institut 846 (f. 167r), where it is written twice by a later hand (Getov 2014: 174).
Bibliography

Primary

D. Getov, 2014, A catalogue of the Greek manuscripts at the Ecclesiastical Historical and Archival Institute of the Patriarchate of Bulgaria. Bačkovo Monastery (vol. 1), Turnhout: 26

Bibliography category to be determined
Number of verses 2
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 814: "Sententia"
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