Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3476
(formerly typ/1600)

	Τὸ δραστικὸν κλόνου τε καὶ νοῦ δριμύτης
	τὴν ὀξυτάτην δριμύτητά μοι νόει·
	νοημάτων δύναμίς ἐστι δριμύτης,
	ἰσχὺν χορηγεῖ τοῖς λέγουσι δριμύτης.

Text source	M. Tomadaki 2018, An Unpublished Poem on Porphyry, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 111, 777-792: 785
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Porphyry of Tyros < Lebanon (234 - 305)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author
Translation(s)	The activity of tumult and also the mind’s sharpness –consider it as a very acute sharpness– this sharpness is the power of concepts, it provides strength to those who call it sharpness. Language English Source(s) M. Tomadaki 2018, An Unpublished Poem on Porphyry, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 111, 777-792: 785 Quod-efficax-est motus atque sensus acumen celerrimum acumen mihi in mentem inducit: cogitatorum potentia est acumen, robur subministrat dicentibus acumen. 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: 329
Comment	= Anth. Gr. Append. III.234
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 117 E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 329
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[19387] Τὸ δραστικ(ὸν) κλόνου τὲ (καὶ) νοῦ δριμύτης [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 31, Cod. 37 [1301-1350] (f. 227r -- (alt.) f. 225r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, 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, 765: "In Porphyrium"
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