Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5055
(formerly typ/3108)

	Ὧδε δὲ τετραπόδων γένεα καὶ ἦθος ἔειπε·
	πλάσσε δὲ ὑψιμέδων Θεὸς ἄβροτον φῶτα φαεινὸν
	δραξάμενος χείρεσσι λόγος χόον θῆκεν ἐν ἔργῳ
	εἰκόνα τὲ προσέειπεν, ἐὴν ἄρχειν τε κέλευεν
	ζώων ἠπείρειο καὶ εἰναλίων τε ἁπάντων.

Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Basil the Great (330-379) (episkopos of Kaisareia < Cappadocia)
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, G. Muccio 1896, Index codicum graecorum bibliothecae Angelicae, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica (SIFC), 4, 33-184: 134 C. Samberger, 1968, Catalogi codicum graecorum qui in minoribus bibliothecis Italicis asservantur (vol. 2), Leipzig: 148
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[21772] (...)δε (δὲ) τετραπόδ(ων) γένεα κ(αὶ) ἦθος ἔειπε [14th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Angelica gr. 89 (B.2.10) [14th c.] (f. 60v) (5 verses)
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 882: "In Basilii homilias in Hexaemeron"
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Last modified: 2019-07-01.