Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4861
(formerly typ/2914)

	Ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖς κεχαρισμένα πάντοτε ῥέζων
	καὶ τάδ’ ἐπ’ εὐσεβέοντι νόῳ συνέγραψε Μαρῖνος.

Title(s)	Εἰς τὸν βίον Πρόκλου
Text source	H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. IX-XI (vol. 3), München: 120-121
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Marinos Neapolites (5th c.)
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Marinos Neapolites (5th c.)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author
Translation(s)	Marinus, who ever doth works pleasing to the gods, wrote this, too, with pious intent'. Language English Source(s) W. Paton, 1917, The Greek Anthology. Book 9 (vol. 3), Cambridge: 103 Faisant toujours ce qu'aiment les dieux immortels, c'est dans une pieuse intention encore que Marinos a écrit se livre. Language French Source(s) P. Waltz, 1957, Anthologie Grecque. Tome VII: Anthologie palatine, Livre IX, Épigrammes 1-358 (vol. 7), Paris: 78 Stets den unsterblichen Göttern Gefälliges gerne erweisend, hat Marinos auch dieses in frommer Gesinnung geschrieben'. Language German Source(s) H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. IX-XI (vol. 3), München: 121
Comment	The epigram also precedes Marinos Neapolites' Vita Procli in the 16th-century manuscript Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria B. II. 19 (Pasini 107).
Bibliography	Primary W. Paton, 1917, The Greek Anthology. Book 9 (vol. 3), Cambridge: 102-103 P. Waltz, 1957, Anthologie Grecque. Tome VII: Anthologie palatine, Livre IX, Épigrammes 1-358 (vol. 7), Paris: 78
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[21454] ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖς κεχαρισμένα πάντοτε ῥέζων [10th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 249 [10th c.] (f. 74r) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Anthologia Graeca, IX.196 Vassis ICB 2005, 14: "Marinus Neapolites*, In vitam Procli"
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