Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17781
(formerly occ/1035)

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Οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητὸς ἐγὼ κ(αὶ) ἐφήμερος· ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἄστρων
ἰχνεύω κατὰ νοῦν ἀμφιδρόμους ἕλικας,
οὐκέτ᾽ ἐπιψαύω γαίης ποσίν. ἀλλὰ παρ᾽ αὐτῶ
ζηνὶ διοτρεφέος πίμπλαμαι ἀμβροσίης:
Type(s) [2326] Οἶδ’, ὅτι θνατὸς ἐγὼ καὶ ἐφάμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων (4 verses)
Text source DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th c.
Manuscript VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 198 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 138v
Palaeographical information The title and the initial are written in red ink.
Contextual information The epigram precedes Ptolemy's Mathematical Treatise.
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s)
Comment Mercati-De' Cavalieri (1923: 237) mention only the incipit.
Image source(s) https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.198/0144
Bibliography

Primary

G. Mercati, P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, 1923, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1-329 (vol. 1), Rome: 237
Number of verses 4
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Delphine Nachtergaele
Transcriber(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
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