Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5347
(formerly typ/3389)

Νεβρείων ὁπόσον σάλπιγξ ὑπερίαχεν αὐλῶν,
τόσσον ὑπὲρ πάσας ἔκραγε σεῖο χέλυς·
οὐδὲ μάτην ἁπαλοῖς περὶ χείλεσιν ἑσμὸς ἐκεῖνος
ἔπλασε κηρόδετον, Πίνδαρε, σεῖο μέλι.
Μάρτυς ὁ Μαινάλιος κερόεις θεὸς ὕμνον ἀείσας
τὸν σέο καὶ νομίων λησάμενος δονάκων.
Title(s)
  • Εἰς εἰκόνα Πινδάρου
  • In imaginem Pindari
Text source H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. XII-XVI (vol. 4), München: 466-467
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Antipatros of Thessaloniki < Central Macedonia < Greece - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Subject(s)
Tag(s)
Translation(s)
  • As much as the trumpet out-peals the fawn-bone flute, so much does thy lyre out-ring all others. It was not idly, Pindar, that that swarm of bees fashioned the honeycomb about thy tender lips. I call to witness the horned god of Arcady, who chanted one of thy hymns and forgot his reed-pipe.
    Language
    English
    Source(s)
    W. Paton, 1918, The Greek Anthology. Books 13-16 (vol. 5), Cambridge: 341-343
  • Autant la trompette couvre le son des flûtes en os de faon, autant de ses accents ta lyre surpasse toutes les autres. Ce n'est pas en vain qu'un blond essaim d'abeilles sur tes tendres lèvres vint former, Pindare, son gâteau de miel. Témoin en est le dieu cornu du Ménale: il voulut chanter un de tes chants, il en oublia ses roseaux champêtres.
    Language
    French
    Source(s)
    F. Buffière, R. Aubreton, 1980, Anthologie Grecque. Tome XIII: Anthologie de Planude (vol. 13), Paris: 194
  • Wie die Trompete des Kriegs die Flöte vom Beine des Hirschkalbs
    laut übertönt, so braust über die andern dein Sang.
    Nicht umsonst hat der Schwarm der Bienen dir, Pindar, auf deinen
    jugendlich schwellenden Mund Waben von Honig gelegt.
    Das bezeugt der gehörnte mainalische Gott mir, der deinen
    Hymnos gesungen un drob seine Syringe vergaß.
    Language
    German
    Source(s)
    H. Beckby, 1965, Anthologia Graeca. XII-XVI (vol. 4), München: 465
Bibliography

Primary
Number of verses 6
Occurrence(s) [20733] Νεβρείων ὁπόσον σάλπιγξ ὑπερίαχεν αὐλῶν [1451-1500]
LONDON - British Library - Harley 1752 [1451-1500] (f. 89v)
(6 verses)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:

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Identification Anthologia Graeca, XVI.305
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