Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3251
(formerly typ/1386)

	Ἐγὼ πνέω πῦρ κατὰ τῶν ἀντιθέτων
	στόματι γλῶσσ᾽ ὡς ψυχῇ τῇ διπλόῃ.

Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Theodore Prodromos (12th c.) - PBW: Theodoros/25001/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined N. Festa 1910, Nota sui versiculi in vitia et virtutes, in Miscellanea Ceriani. Raccolta di scritti originali per onorare le memoria di Mr. Antonio Maria Ceriani prefetto delle Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, 569-576: 575 A. Monembasias, 1519, Γέρας εἴ μ᾽ ὀνομάσειας σπάνιον τῶν σπουδαίων, οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοις τῆς ἁληθείας, φίλε, Rome: γ 3r N. Piccolos, 1853, Supplément à l'Anthologie Grecque, contenant des épigrammes et autres poésies légères inédites, Paris: 224 C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 233
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[19096] Ἐγὼ πνέω πῦρ κατὰ τῶν ἀντιθέτων [10th-11th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 130 [10th-11th c.] (f. 1r) (2 verses)
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 167: "Theod. Prodromus, De virtutibus et vitiis (de rhetorica)"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.