Type 5818
(formerly typ/3839)
| Μερόπεσσιν ἔθηκας ἄληκτον θάμβος πᾶσιν | |
| ὑσμήνην ὃς ἐτέκτανας μυῶν ἠδὲ βατράχων· | |
| τῆς σοφίης πηγὴν φύλα πάντα Ὅμηρόν τε θεῖον | |
| ἀνθρώπων ἀπερείσια ἐκπάγλως τιέουσιν· | |
| θεῖον ἐν ἀνθρώποισι τίγρης πέπραχας ἔργον | |
| οὗ φάτις οὔποτ᾽ ὀλεῖ τ’ ἐπὶ γαίῃ τ᾽ ἠδ᾽ ἐπὶ πόλῳ· | |
| εἰ μερόπων φύλα θεῖον Ὅμηρον θεὸν δοξάζειν | |
| οὐ προσίενται ἐπεὶ ψεύδει ἔπεταί γε | |
| ἀλλ᾽ ἀναφανδὸν ὑπάρχειν ἡμίθεον δοξασάντων | |
| ὃν γε Μέλης καλίρους γείνατο Μελπομένης. |
| Title(s) | Τοῦ διδασκάλου κυρίου Μιχαὴλ τοῦ Ἀποστόλη στίχοι οἱ αὐτοὶ ἡρωικοὶ καὶ πολιτικοί |
| Text status | Text completely known |
| Editorial status | Not a critical text |
| Genre(s) | Author-related epigram |
| Person(s) | |
| Metre(s) | Mixture |
| Subject(s) | Homer (8th c. BC) |
| Tag(s) | Praise of the author |
| Comment | Edition in preparation by Maria Tomadaki. The following interlinear scholia by Michael Apostoles accompany the poem in the printed edition of Batrachomyomachia by Laonicus Cretensis (1486). They are written in red ink: 'ὄντως τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἔβαλες ἄπαυστον θαῦμα ὅλοις μάχην ὅστις κατεσκεύασας καὶ τῶν ῥίζαν γένη ὅλα θαυμαστὸν τῶν πλεῖστα τιμῶσι θαυμαστὸν τοῖς ὦ σοφὲ ἐποίησας λόγος φθαρίσεται ἐπάνω τοῦ ἀνθρώπων γένη θαυμαστὸν ὡς θεὸν ὑμνεῖν οὐκ ούλονται ἀκολουθεῖ φανερὸν εἶναι ἐδόξασαν ὅντινα ὁ ἐγέννησεν ἀπὸ τῆς'. |
| Bibliography | |
| Number of verses | 10 |
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Contributor(s)
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete. |
| Identification | Vassis ICB 2005, 455: "Michael Apostoles, In Homeri Batrachomyomachiam vv. heroici simul et politici" |
| Permalink | https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/5818 |
Last modified: 2023-06-05.
