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Type 3232
(formerly typ/1369)

	Ἥδ᾽ ἡ βίβλος Ἀριστοτέλους λογικῆς παιδείης,
	ὄργανον ἣν κάλεσαν σοφίης εἰδήμονες ἄνδρες.
	Ἀλλά μιν αἰθομένῳ πυρὶ λαμπετόωντί τ' ἐΐσκω.
	Φῶς γὰρ ἀληθείης παρέχει, ψεῦδος πιμπρᾷ δέ.

Text source	E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 325-326
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Isaak Argyros (1300 - 1375) - VGH: 163.K - PLP: I.1285 (monachos)
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Aristoteles (384 BC - 322 BC)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	Hicce liber Aristotelis logicae doctrinae est quem Organum vocavere sapientiae scientes viri. Sed eum ardenti igni lucenti adsimulo. Lucem enim veritatis praebet, mendacium autem comburit. Language Latin Source(s) E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 325-326
Comment	Text of Cougny (1890: 325-326) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 63
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[32410] ἡδ᾽ ἡ βιβλος αριστοτελους λογικης παιδειης [15th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana Q 87 sup. [1351-1375] (f. 10r) (4 verses) [25054] Ἥδ᾽ ἡ βίβλος ἀριστοτέλους λογικῆς παιδείης [15th-16th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Barb. gr. 139 [15th c.] (f. 21v) (4 verses) [24389] ἥδ᾽ ἡ βίβλος ἀριστοτέλους λογικῆς παιδίης [14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 116 [14th c.] (f. 2r) (4 verses) [19076] Ἥδ᾽ ἡ βίβλος ἀριστοτέλους λογικῆς παιδείης [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 57 [15th c.] (f. 167v) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Information on the type courtesy of Ioannis Vassis. Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Anthologia Graeca Appendix, III.III.211 Vassis ICB 2005, 298: "In Aristotelis Organum"
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