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Type 3619
(formerly typ/1715)

Ἔοικας, ὤ τᾶν, εἰδέναι γράφειν ὕβρεις,
λυσιτελῶν δὲ μηδαμῶς διειδέναι.
Ἦ γὰρ ἂν ᾔδεις Εὐσεβίου τοὺς πόνους
καὶ τοὺς ἀγῶνας, οὓς καθ᾽ Ἑλλήνων ἔτλη
φλυαρίαν τὰ τῶνδε μακρὰν δεικνύων,
ὅπως Ἰουδαίων τε δυσσεβῆ πλάνην
ἀναιρετικοῖς ἐκθριαμβεύει λόγοις,
τῶν μαρτύρων ἀγῶνας ὡς μεγαλύνει,
τῶν αἱρετικῶν ὡς ἀναίρει τὸ στίφος,
πρὸς πᾶν ὅπως χρήσιμος εἱς Θεοῦ σέβας.
Ἔδει σε ταῦτα γινώσκοντα καὶ πλέω
μὴ λεξιτηρεῖν κατ᾽ Ἰουδαίους ἴσως,
καὶ μὴ νοοῦντα τὸν νόον τῶν λέξεων,
ὕβρεις καταχεῖν τοῦ τοσούτου τὸν λόγον.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Eusebios of Caesarea (260-265 - 339)
Tag(s) Reference to content of the book
Translation(s) Videris, amice, scire scribere contumelias,
utilium autem nihil omnino scire.
Profecto enim novisses Eusebii labores,
et certamina quae in Gentiles sustinuit,
eorum opiniones ingentes esse nugas demonstrans:
quomodo Judaeorum impium errorem
exitialibus triumphet orationibus,
martyrum quomodo vertamina magnificet,
haeraeticorum quomodo tollat agmina,
quomodo in universum utilis sit ad Dei cultum.
Oportebat te haec scientem et plura
non verba-aucupari secundum Judaeos aeque,
neque intelligentem verborum sensum,
orationis in tantum virum effundere contumelias.
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: 454
Bibliography
Number of verses 14
Occurrence(s) [19538] ἔοικας· ὦ τᾶν εἰδέναι γράφ(ειν) ὕβρεις [15th c.]
FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 7 [10th c.] (f. 187v)
(14 verses)
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