Type 3555
(formerly typ/1664)

Ὠκεανὸς γενόμην γαιήοχος· εἰ δ᾽ ἀπιθήσῃς,
εἰπὲ τίς ἡμετέρας οὐκ ἁλέγει δεκάδος;
Παγκρατὲς ὢ δεκάδος μεταδίκτυον, ὢ τόσον ἕρκος
ὢ φύσις, ὢ πινυτὴ μῆτις Ἀριστοτέλους.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Subject(s) Aristoteles (384 BC - 322 BC) - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Oceanus sum terras-ambiens; quod si non credis,
dic, quis nostrae non studeat decadi?
O omnipotens decadis reticulum! o quantum septum,
o natura, o sapiens Aristotelis mens!
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: 325
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. III.209
Bibliography
Number of verses 4
Occurrence(s) [19475] ὡκεανὸς γενομην γαιήοχος εἰ δ᾽ ἀπι|θήεις [1399]
FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 71, Cod. 3 [1251-1300] (f. 140v)
(4 verses)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 885: "In Aristotelem"
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