Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5279
(formerly typ/3324)

	Τῇ τῶν λόγων σου κογχύλῃ, Πορφύριε,
	βάπτεις τὰ χείλη καὶ στολίζεις τὰς φρένας.

Title(s)	Εἰς τὸν φιλόσοφον Πορφύριον
Text source	H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. IX-XI (vol. 3), München: 130-131
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Leon the Mathematician/the Philosopher (790-869) - PBE: 4834 - PMBZ: 15604: "Personenkennziffer: 4440/corr."
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Porphyry of Tyros < Lebanon (234 - 305)
Tag(s)	Address to the author Praise of the author
Critical Notes	1 Πορφύριε ] Χρυσόστομε Marc. gr. Z. 108
Translation(s)	With the purple of your words, Porphyry, you dye the lips and adorn the mind. Language English Source(s) M. Tomadaki 2018, An Unpublished Poem on Porphyry, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 111(3), 777-792: 784 Porphyry, with the purple of thy discourse thou dyest the lips and clothest the mind in splendour. Language English Source(s) W. Paton, 1917, The Greek Anthology. Book 9 (vol. 3), Cambridge: 111 Avec la conque de tes discours, ô Porphyre, tu teins les lèvres et tu habilles les esprits. Language French Source(s) P. Waltz, 1957, Anthologie Grecque. Tome VII: Anthologie palatine, Livre IX, Épigrammes 1-358 (vol. 7), Paris: 85 Mit deiner Worte Purpur, o Porphyrios, färbst du die Lippen dir und hüllst den Geist in Glanz. Language German Source(s) H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. IX-XI (vol. 3), München: 131
Comment	The version on John Chrysostom is also to be found in the 16th-century manuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, gr. 31.
Bibliography	Primary B. Baldwin 1990, The epigrams of Leo the Philosopher, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 14, 1-17: 9 W. Paton, 1917, The Greek Anthology. Book 9 (vol. 3), Cambridge: 110-111 M. Tomadaki 2018, An Unpublished Poem on Porphyry, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 111(3), 777-792: 784 P. Waltz, 1957, Anthologie Grecque. Tome VII: Anthologie palatine, Livre IX, Épigrammes 1-358 (vol. 7), Paris: 85 L. Westerink 1986, Leo the Philosopher: Job and Other Poems, Illinois Classical Studies, 11(1-2), 193-222: 199
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[25523] τῆ τῶν λόγ(ων) σου \| κογχύλ(η) πορφύριε [1251-1275] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 305 [1251-1275] (f. 171r) (2 verses) [22111] τῆ τῶν λόγων σου κογχύλη χρυσόστομε [14th c.] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 108 (coll. 480) [14th c.] (f. 1v) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Julián Bértola, 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.214 Vassis ICB 2005, 744: "Leo Philosophus, In Porhyrium philosophum"
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