Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 29368

	+ ἐπίγραμμα· ὅπερ εἶπε πτολεμαῖος εἰς ἑαυτ(ὸν)· +

	+οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητὸς ἔφυν καὶ ἐφάμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων \|
	μαστεύω πικνὰς (?) ἀμφιδρόμους ἕλικας· \|
	οὐκέτ’ ἐπιψαύω γαίης ποσίν· ἀλλὰ παρ’ αὐτῶ \|
	ζηνὶ, θεοτρεφέος 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	1200
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 117 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1v
Palaeographical information	The epigram is written by the main scribe of the manuscript in prose form. The vertical bars, which distinguish the verses, seem to have been added by another hand.
Contextual information	It precedes a table of contents of Ptolemy's Geography.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Claudius Ptolemy (2nd c.) Zeus
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.177/0008
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[19345] Οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητὸς ἔφυν καὶ ἐφήμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 10, Cod. 21 [15th c.] (f. 173r) (4 verses) (4/4) [34083] οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητὸς ἔφυν καὶ ἐφάμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρ(ων) [1501-1520] MADRID - Biblioteca Universitaria Complutense, Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla 117-z°-10 (olim Villa-Amil 28) [1501-1520] (f. 155v) (4 verses) (4/4) [33153] Οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητός ἔφυν καὶ ἐφήμερος, ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων [15th c.] MODENA - Biblioteca Estense Universitaria α. O. 7. 12 (Lat. 56) [15th c.] (f. 119v) (4 verses) (4/4) [21251] οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητὸς ἔφυν καὶ \| ἐφάμερος, ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων· [13th c.] MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 212 [1326-1350] (f. 1r) (4 verses) (3/4) [27083] οἶδ' ὅτι θνητὸς ἔφυν καὶ ἐφ' ἅμερος ἀλλ’ ὅτ' ἄν ἄστρων [10th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1853 [10th-15th c.] (f. 67v) (4 verses) (4/4) [17781] Οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητὸς ἐγὼ κ(αὶ) ἐφήμερος· ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἄστρων [14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 198 [14th c.] (f. 138v) (4 verses) (3/4) [22230] οἶδ' ὅτι, θνητὸς ἔφυν καὶ ἐφήμερος, ἀλλ' ὅταν ἄστρων [1401-1498] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 388 (coll. 833) [15th c.] (f. IVv) (4 verses) (4/4) display 4 more occurrences (7 in total) hide 4 occurrences (7 in total)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) 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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