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.) - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Marinos Neapolites (5th c.) - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:
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 - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: 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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