Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 7017
(formerly typ/4929)

	Εἰ ῥητορικῆς ἀκροάσασθαι θέλεις,
	μὴ παραδράμῃς μηδαμῶς ταῦτα, φίλος·
	ὁδὸς γάρ ἐστιν ἀπλανὴς πρὸς τὴν τέχνην.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Rhetoric
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	Rhetoricam si scire velis, hunc nullus, amice, Praetereas, Artis nam via certa, Librum. Language Latin Source(s) J. Iriarte, 1769, Regiae Bibliothecae Matritensis codices graeci mss., Madrid: 442
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined J. Iriarte, 1769, Regiae Bibliothecae Matritensis codices graeci mss., Madrid: 442 H. Rabe, 1931, Prolegomenon sylloge, Leipzig: XXIV
Number of verses	3
Occurrence(s)	[26204] εἰ ῥητορικῆς ἀκροάσασθαι θέλεις [1451-1475] MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4632 (olim N.111) [1451-1475] (f. 66r) (3 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola, Julián Bértola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 194: "In Trophonii sophistae prolegomena in rhetoricam (versus ad Studium incitantes)"
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Last modified: 2021-02-04.