Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3404
(formerly typ/1542)

	Ζωὴν εἰ θέλωμεν εὑρεῖν τὴν θαυμαστὴν ἐκείνην,
	ζηλώσωμεν τὸν κάματον τῶν θαυμαστῶν πατέρων
	καὶ πόνοις ἀναλώσωμεν σαρκὸς τὴν εὐσαρκίαν,
	τοὺς ὀχετοὺς ξηράνωμεν τοὺς τῶν ὑπογαστρίων,
	τῶν ἡδυνόντων ἀποχῇ δασμῶν τῶν οὐ χρησίμων,
	οἰνοφλυγίας νέφωσιν σκεδάσωμεν ἐν δίψει,
	μὴ χωρίσωμεν γαστρὶ δασμῶν τῶν ἀναγκαίων
	καθ᾽ ἡδυπάθειεν αἰσχρὰν περισσοτέρας ὕλας,
	ὡς ἄν γε μὴ τὴν ἄλωνα τὸ πῦρ προσαναλώσῃ,
	τὸ στόμα δὲ μὴ δώσωμεν ἐξαμαρτεῖν τὴν σάρκα,
	καθώσπερ φάσκει Σολομὼν ὁ θαυμαστὸς ἐκεῖνος·
	λόγος καὶ γὰρ ἀσύμφορος ἅπαν μολύνει σῶμα.

Title(s)	Στίχοι ὠφέλιμοι
Text source	A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 291
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Decapentasyllable
Subject(s)	Solomon
Tag(s)	(Spiritual) advice to the reader
Bibliography
Number of verses	12
Occurrence(s)	[19293] ζωὴν εἰ θέλωμεν εὑρεῖν τὴν θαυμαστ(ὴν) ἐκείνην [1323] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 30 [1323] (f. 167r) (12 verses) [34882] ζωὴν εἰ θέλομεν εὑρεῖν τὴν θαυμαστὴν ἐκείνην [14th c.] MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 30 (Vlad. 3) [14th-15th c.] (f. 264v) (12 verses) [26356] Ζωὴν εἰ θέλωμ(εν) εὑρεῖν τ(ὴν) θαυ\|μαστὴν ἐκείνην [1272] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 999 [1272] (f. 178r) (12 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 286: "Versus utiles"
Permalink	https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/3404

Last modified: 2023-07-14.