Type 3542
(formerly typ/1655)

Πέφυκε διδάσκουσα τοῖς φιλιστόροις,
ἃ συνέβησαν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις πάλαι
κατά τε τὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ Παλαιστίνην,
καὶ Σύριαν τε, βίβλος ἡ προκειμένη·
πεπόνθασιν ὅσα τε παρ᾽ Ἀσσυρίων,
Βαβυλωνίων, Πέρσων καὶ Μακεδόνων,
ὅσα μετὰ τούτους γε Ῥωμαίων πάρα.
Ἁπλῶς γὰρ οὑδὲν τῶν κατὰ τούτους πέλει,
ὃ καταλιπὼν συγκεκαλύφθαι χρόνῳ
ὁ θαυμάσιος Ἰώσηπος τυγχάνει.
Text source A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 642-643
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s)
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Flavius Josephus (1st c. - 2nd c.)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Docet historiae-amatores
quae Judaeis olim contigerunt
in Aegypto et Palaestina,
et Syria, praesens liber:
tum quae passi sunt ab Assyriis,
Babyloniis, Persis et Macedonibus,
quaeque post ipsos a Romanis.
Nihil enim omnino est eorum, quae ad ipsos pertinent,
quod praetermittens, uno cum tempore obrui
mirabilis Josephus permiserit.
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: 327
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. III.219
Bibliography
Number of verses 10
Occurrence(s) [19466] πέφυκε διδάσκουσα τοῖς φιλιστόροις [14th c.]
FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 69, Cod. 23 [14th c.] (f. 317v)
(10 verses)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 615: "In Iosephi librum de antiquitate Iudaica (Laur. 69.23)"
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