Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5719
(formerly typ/3748)

	Ζῴων ἔθη νομάς τε καὶ φύσεις ἅμα
	τῶν γηγενῶν πτηνῶν τε καὶ θαλαττίων
	ἄναξ ὁ πιστὸς καὶ σοφὸς Κωνσταντῖνος
	συνῆξε λεπταῖς ὧδε τοῦ νοῦ φροντίσιν.

Text source	S. Lampros, 1885, Excerptorum Constantini de natura animalium libri duo. Aristophanis historiae animalium epitome (vol. 1), Berlin: 1
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos (May 905 - 09/11/959) - PBW: Konstantinos/7/ - PMBZ: 25888: "Personenkennziffer: 23734"
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	I costumi, le specie e le nature degli animali di terra, di cielo e di mare, il pio e saggio principe Costantino raccolse qui con fine discernimento. Language Italian Source(s) V. Cuomo 2005, Athos Dionysiou 180 + Paris. Suppl. grec 495: Un nuovo manoscritto di Theodosio principe, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 98(1), 23-34: 26
Bibliography	Secondary V. Cuomo 2005, Athos Dionysiou 180 + Paris. Suppl. grec 495: Un nuovo manoscritto di Theodosio principe, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 98(1), 23-34: 26 A. Németh, 2018, The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past, Cambridge: 62
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[23003] Ἡώ(ων) ἔθη νομάς τε καὶ φύσεις ἅμα [14th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 495 [14th c.] (f. 8r) (4 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	Vassis ICB 2005, 290: "In excerpta Constantini VII imp. de natura animalium"
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