Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

• Author-related epigram
• Text-related epigram

• Panaetius of Rhodos < Greece (185 BC - 109 BC)
• Plato (429 BC - 347 BC)

• Polemic
• Reference to content of the book

• If Plato did not write me there were two Platos,
  for I have all the flowers of the Socratic dialogues.
  But Panaetius made me out to be spurious; he who dared to make
  the soul mortal, let him make me spurious too.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  K. Demoen 2019, Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext, in M. Kanellou, C. Carey, I. Petrovic (eds.), Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era, Oxford, 66-84: 69

• If Plato did not write me there were two Platos, for I have all the flowers of the Socratic dialogues. But Panaetius made me out to be spurious. He who made the soul out to be mortal will make me spurious too.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  W. Paton, 1917, The Greek Anthology. Book 9 (vol. 3), Cambridge: 193

• Si Platon ne m'a pas écrit, c'est qu'il y eut deux Platons: je porte toutes les fleurs des entretiens socratiques. Panétius, il est vrai, a fait de moi un bâtard. Bon pour qui a fait l'âme mortelle de me faire moi aussi bâtard!

  Language

  French

  Source(s)

  P. Waltz, 1957, Anthologie Grecque. Tome VII: Anthologie palatine, Livre IX, Épigrammes 1-358 (vol. 7), Paris: 143

• Hat mich nicht Platon verfasst, dann gab es zwei Platon; ich trage
  des sokratischen Worts sämtlichen Zauber an mir.
  Freilich, Panaitios nannte mich unecht; doch da er die Seele
  selbst schon sterblich genannt, nenne er unecht auch mich.

  Language

  German

  Source(s)

  H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. IX-XI (vol. 3), München: 219

• Si me Plato non scripsit, duo erant Platones.
  Socraticorum colloquiorum flores omnes fero.
  At Nothum effecit Panaitius, qui et effecit
  animam mortalem, et me Nothum.

  Language

  Latin

  Source(s)

  I. Hardt, 1812, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum Bibliothecae Regiae Bavaricae. Cod. CCCCLXXIII-DLXXX continens (vol. 5), Munich: 264

• [19184] εἴ με πλάτων οὐ γράψε, δύω ἐγένοντο πλάτωνες [15th c.]
  FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 6, Cod. 22 [15th c.] (f. 86v)
  (4 verses)
• [21361] Εἴ με πλάτ(ων) οὐ γράψε, δύω ἐγένοντο πλάτωνες [15th c.]
  MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 514 [15th c.] (f. 66r)
  (4 verses)
• [23803] εἴ με πλάτων οὐ γράψε δύω ἐγένοντο πλάτωνες [12th c.]
  PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1808 [12th c.] (f. 22r)
  (4 verses)

The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.

• Anthologia Graeca, IX.358
• Vassis ICB 2005, 188: "In Platonis Phaedonem"