Type 4529
(formerly typ/2620)

Βωμὸν Ἀριστοτέλης ἐνιδρύσατο τόνδε Πλάτωνος,
ἀνδρός, ὃν οὐδ’ αἰνεῖν τοῖσι κακοῖσι θέμις
ὃς μόνος ἢ πρῶτος θνητῶν κατέδειξεν ἐναργῶς,
οἰκείῳ τε βίῳ καὶ μεθόδοισι λόγων,
ὡς ἀγαθός τε καὶ εὐδαίμων ἅμα γίγνεται ἀνήρ,
οὐ νῦν δ' ἔστι λαβεῖν οὐδενὶ ταῦτά ποτε.
Title(s) Εἰς Πλάτωνα
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Aristoteles (384 BC - 322 BC)
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Subject(s) Plato (429 BC - 347 BC)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) 'In Platonem.
Aram Aristoteles fundavit hancce Platonis,
viri, quem laudare non malis fas est:
qui solus aut primus mortalium demonstravit luculenter
et privata vita et ratione scriptorum
bonum et felicem simul fleri virum:
non nunc autem est capere ulli ista unquam'.
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: 295
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. III.47
Bibliography
Number of verses 6
Occurrence(s) [21013] NA [1463]
MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4635 (olim N.114) [1463] (f. 1r)
(2 verses)
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Last modified: 2019-08-14.