Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3526
(formerly typ/1642)

	Μετεγγραφῆς μὲν λαμπροτάτων σῶν λόγων,
	ὦ ῥητόρων ἄριστε, λήγω τοῦ πόνου
	τοῦ τῶνδε πλὴν ἔρωτος οὐ παύειν σθένω.

Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Publius Aelius Aristides of Hadrianotherae < Asia Minor < Turkey (117 - 181)
Tag(s)	Address to the author Completion of the book Praise of the author
Translation(s)	Postquam tuos exscripsi nobilissimos sermones, O maxime Rhetorum, cessabo a labore, Sed ab amore in ipsos plane numquam cessabo. Language Latin Source(s) A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 599
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 599
Number of verses	3
Occurrence(s)	[19447] μετ' ἐγγραφῆς μὲν λαμπροτάτων σῶν λόγων [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 60, Cod. 9 [15th c.] (f. 425r) (3 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, 456: "Librarii nota in Aelii Aristidis orationes (Laur. 60.9)"
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Last modified: 2020-11-12.