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Type 3489
(formerly typ/1609)

	Δηλῶν τὰ πικρὰ τῷ γλυκεῖ τῶν ῥημάτων
	ἀψίνθιον μέλιτι κιρνᾷς, Σοφόκλεις.

Title(s)	Εἰς τὸν Σοφοκλῆν
Text source	M. Tomadaki 2014, Ιωάννης Γεωμέτρης, Ιαμβικά Ποιήματα: Κριτική έκδοση, μετάφραση και σχόλια, Thessaloniki: 159
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ioannes Geometres (950-1000) - PMBZ: 25246: "Personenkennziffer: 23092"
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author
Translation(s)	On Sophocles By expressing bitterness with the sweetness of eloquence, Sophocles, you mix absinthe with honey. Language English Source(s) M. Tomadaki, Emilie M. van Opstall 2019, The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 19, 193-220: 205 Καθώς, Σοφοκλή, εκφράζεις τις πίκρες με τη γλυκύτητα των λόγων, αναμιγνύεις την αψιθιά με το μέλι. Language Greek Source(s) M. Tomadaki 2014, Ιωάννης Γεωμέτρης, Ιαμβικά Ποιήματα: Κριτική έκδοση, μετάφραση και σχόλια, Thessaloniki: 159 In Sophoclem. Monstrans amara dulcedine verborum absinthium melli misces, o Sophocles. 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: 324
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 202 A. Bandini, 1770, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 3), Florence: E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 324 J. Cramer, 1967, Anecdota græca e codd. manuscriptis Bibliothecae Regiae Parisiensis (vol. 4), Hildesheim: 309 J. Migne, 1863, Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca (vol. 106), Paris: 946 Secondary M. Tomadaki 2014, Ιωάννης Γεωμέτρης, Ιαμβικά Ποιήματα: Κριτική έκδοση, μετάφραση και σχόλια, Thessaloniki: 369-370 Emilie M. van Opstall, M. Tomadaki 2019, John Geometres: a Poet around the Year 1000, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas, W. Hörandner (eds.), A Companion to Byzantine Poetry, Leiden, 191-211: 201
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[20166] δηλῶν τὰ πικρὰ τῶ γλυκεῖ τ(ῶν) ῥημάτ(ων) [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 66 [14th c.] (f. 46v) (2 verses) [19399] δηλῶν τὰ πικρὰ τῶ γλυκεῖ τῶν ῥημάτων [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 40 [14th c.] (f. 49r) (2 verses) [25394] δηλῶν τὰ πικρὰ τῶ γλυκεῖ τ(ῶν) ῥημάτ(ων) [14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 141 [14th c.] (f. 23r) (2 verses) [25335] Δηλῶν τὰ πικρα τῶ γλυκεῖ τ(ῶν) ῥημάτ(ων) [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1332 [13th-14th c.] (f. 48v) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Lotte van Olmen, 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.199 Vassis ICB 2005, 143: "Ioann. Geometres, In Sophoclem"
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