Type 3485
(formerly typ/1607)

Ὥσπερ σκύφος γάλακτος ἢ καὶ κισσύβη,
ἡ βουκολικὴ πᾶσιν ἔγκειται βίβλος
τοιγὰρ ῥοφῶμεν οἱ θέλοντες τὸν λόγον
στόμασι λαύροις, εἰ κελεύουσι φρένες.
Title(s) Ἰαμβικοί. Εἰς βουκολικήν.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Tag(s) Reference to content of the book
Translation(s) Iambici.
In bucolicam.
Velut scyphus lactis aut et poculum,
bucolicus omnibus propositus est liber:
igitur hauriamus volentes litteras
ore avido, si quidem suadent mentes.
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: 415
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. IV.88
Bibliography
Number of verses 4
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 906: "In Theocriti bucolica"
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Last modified: 2019-06-13.