Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

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Type 2861
(formerly typ/963)

Ὀρθὰς φύλαττε τοῦ νοός σου τὰς τρίβους
καὶ κοιλίαν δάμαζε καὶ γλῶσσαν πλέον
καὶ τὴν στενὴν δίωκε τοῦ βίου πύλην
καὶ φεῦγε κόσμον καὶ νέος γενοῦ γέρων.
Title(s) Φίλε ὅστις εἶ·
Text source K. Bentein, K. Demoen 2012, The Reader in Eleventh-Century Book Epigrams, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 69-88: 74-75
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Reader-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)
Translation(s) 'Dear friend, whoever you are:
Keep the paths of your mind straight,
subdue your belly, and your tongue even more.
Seek after the narrow gate of life (Mt 7: 13-14),
flee from the world and become a new man'.
Language
English
Source(s)
K. Bentein, K. Demoen 2012, The Reader in Eleventh-Century Book Epigrams, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 69-88: 75
Bibliography

Bibliography category to be determined

E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 421
Number of verses 4
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 545: "Versus paraenetici"
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