Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3232
(formerly typ/1369)

Ἥδ᾽ ἡ βίβλος Ἀριστοτέλους λογικῆς παιδείης,
ὄργανον ἣν κάλεσαν σοφίης εἰδήμονες ἄνδρες.
Ἀλλά μιν αἰθομένῳ πυρὶ λαμπετόωντί τ' ἐΐσκω.
Φῶς γὰρ ἀληθείης παρέχει, ψεῦδος πιμπρᾷ δέ.
Text source E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 325-326
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s)
Person(s)
Poet
Isaak Argyros (1300 - 1375) - VGH: 163.K - PLP: I.1285 (monachos)
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s) Aristoteles (384 BC - 322 BC)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Hicce liber Aristotelis logicae doctrinae est
quem Organum vocavere sapientiae scientes viri.
Sed eum ardenti igni lucenti adsimulo.
Lucem enim veritatis praebet, mendacium autem comburit.
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: 325-326
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. III.211
Text of Cougny (1890: 325-326) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography

Primary

C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 63
Number of verses 4
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements Information on the type courtesy of Ioannis Vassis.

Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 298: "In Aristotelis Organum"
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