Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3491
(formerly typ/1610)

	Νόσον ἔβαλεν ὁ λιμὸς, ὃς ὅμιλον ἔβαλεν ὅσον
	Ἁμήσας ἄρδην ὀροφήφορον ἤδρασα σῆμα

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Sophocles (497 BC-405 BC)
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 202 K. Demoen, Emilie M. van Opstall 2010, One for the road. John Geometres, reader and imitator of Gregory Nazianzen's poems, in A. Schmidt (ed.), Studia Nazianzenica (vol. 2), Turnhout, 223-248: 230 A. Monembasias, 1519, Γέρας εἴ μ᾽ ὀνομάσειας σπάνιον τῶν σπουδαίων, οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοις τῆς ἁληθείας, φίλε, Rome: L. Sternbach 1900, Analecta Byzantina, Ceské Museum filologické, 6, 291-322: 300
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[19400] νόσον ἔβαλ(εν) ὁ λιμὸ(ς) ὃς ὅμιλ(ον) ἔλαβ(εν) ὅσ(ον) [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 32, Cod. 40 [14th c.] (f. 49r) (2 verses)
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 491: "Ioann. Tzetzes, Versus retrogradus"
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