Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3555
(formerly typ/1664)

	Ὠκεανὸς γενόμην γαιήοχος· εἰ δ᾽ ἀπιθήσῃς,
	εἰπὲ τίς ἡμετέρας οὐκ ἁλέγει δεκάδος;
	Παγκρατὲς ὢ δεκάδος μεταδίκτυον, ὢ τόσον ἕρκος
	ὢ φύσις, ὢ πινυτὴ μῆτις Ἀριστοτέλους.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Subject(s)	Aristoteles (384 BC - 322 BC)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	Oceanus sum terras-ambiens; quod si non credis, dic, quis nostrae non studeat decadi? O omnipotens decadis reticulum! o quantum septum, o natura, o sapiens Aristotelis mens! 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
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined A. Bandini, 1770, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 3), Florence: 4 E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 325
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[19475] ὡκεανὸς γενομην γαιήοχος εἰ δ᾽ ἀπι\|θήεις [1399] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 71, Cod. 3 [1251-1300] (f. 140v) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Lotte van Olmen 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.209 Vassis ICB 2005, 885: "In Aristotelem"
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