Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2510
(formerly typ/595)

Χρυσοῦ μεταλλεῦ, καὶ γεωργὲ σπερμάτων,
τρέφεις, κατολβίζεις με καμάτων δίχα.
Ἀνηρότως ηὔλησα τὴν πανσπερμίαν·
Ἀμαλθίας εὕρηκα τὴν βίβλον κέρας.
Κάμνεις ὀρύττων τὰς πολυχρόνους φλέβας,
ὡς αὐτὸς ἀκάμαντον ἕξω τὴν πόσιν.
Τὴν γοῦν ἀμοιβὴν χάριν ὑψόθεν λάβοις,
ἂν εὐσέβειαν τοῖς πόνοις κεραννύῃς.
Text source E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 327-328
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Auri effossor, et cultor seminum,
nutris, beatum-efficis me laboribus absque.
Non-arans recondidi omnis-generis semina,
Amaltheae inveni, hunc librum, cornu.
Tu quidem laboras in effodiendis perennibus venis,
ut ego sine labore habeam potum.
Itaque pro munere gratiam caelitus acceperis,
si pietatem laboribus immiscueris.
Language
Latin
Source(s)
E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 327-328
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Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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