Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3571
(formerly typ/1675)

Ἥδε βίβλος σύμπασα Γαληνοῦ δείκνυσι τέχνην
παισὶν ἰητήρων ἀτρεκεέσσι λόγοις.
Τῇδε γὰρ ἐν μιᾷ ἑπτά τε καὶ δέκα γράμματα τάξας,
τοῖσιν ὑπεξέθετο χρεῖαν ὅλων μορίων.
Καὶ μὴν εὐφρονέων τις ἀγαθὰ δαίδαλα ἔργα
τῆσδε μαθὼν ὅσσα πλέξε φύσηϊ Θεός.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Subject(s) Galen of Pergamon < Asia Minor < Turkey (129 - 3rd c.)
Tag(s) Introduction to the subject
Translation(s) Totum hoc volumen Galeni explicat artem
filiis medicorum veris sermonibus.
Hoc enim in uno septem et decem scripta comprehendens
exposuit hisce usum singularum partium.
Ac profecto bene sapit qui optima artificiosa opera
edidicit, quaecunque deus naturae intexui.
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: 414-415
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. IV.85
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Number of verses 6
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Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Lotte van Olmen

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 297: "In Galeni opus de usu partium"
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