Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21251
(formerly occ/5002)

	ἐπίγραμμα ὁ εἶπε πτολεμαῖος εἰς ἑαυτ(ὸν)

	οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητὸς ἔφυν καὶ \| ἐφάμερος, ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων· \|
	ἰχνεύω κατὰ νοῦν ἀμφιδρό\|μους ἕλικας,
	οὐκ ἔτ’ ἐπι\|ψαύω γαίης ποσὶν, ἀλλὰ \| παρ’ ἀυτῷ
	ζηνὶ, \| διοτροφέ(ο)ς \| πίμπλαμαι ἀμβροσίης:-

Type(s)	[2326] Οἶδ’, ὅτι θνατὸς ἐγὼ καὶ ἐφάμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th c.
Manuscript	MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 212 [1326-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1r
Palaeographical information	Title and initial in red ink.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Claudius Ptolemy (2nd c.) Zeus
Image source(s)	http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00066523/image_5
Bibliography	Primary I. Hardt, 1806, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum Bibliothecae Regiae Bavaricae. Cod. CVI-CCXXXIII continens (vol. 2), Munich: 411 Secondary K. Hajdú, 2012, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Codices graeci Monacenses 181–265 (vol. 4), Wiesbaden: 189
Number of verses	4
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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