Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3623
(formerly typ/1721)

	Ἔχθραν τε πολλὴν ἐκ μεγιστάνων νέμει.
	Καταβιβάζων τῷδέ μοι τἀναντία,
	Ἔχθραν τε δηλοῖ μᾶλλον ἐκ κακωτέρων
	Ἀνδρῶν ἀσήμων καὶ ταπεινῶν ἐν βίῳ·
	Ἀγαθοποιὸς δ’ εἰ πάρεστι τῷ τόπῳ,
	Κέρδος δίδωσιν ἐκ βροτῶν πενεστάτων.
	Καὶ ταῦτα βίβλος Βαβυλωνίων γράφει.

Text source	E. Miller 1872, Poèmes astronomiques de Théodore Prodrome et de Jean Camatère, d'après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, in Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi (de la Bibiliothèque Nationale) et autres bibliothèques (vol. 23.2), Paris, 1-112: 111
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ioannes Kamateros - PBW: Ioannes/471/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Astrology
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book
Comment	The epigram consists of the last verses (1345-1351) of John Camaterus' De zodiaco (Vassis 2005: 241).
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined R. Devreesse, 1945, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des manuscripts. Catalogue des manuscripts grecs. Le fonds Coislin (vol. 2), Paris: 323 I. Heeg, 1911, Catalogus codicum astrologorum graecorum. Codices Parisinorum, pars secunda (vol. 8.2), Brussels: 29
Number of verses	7
Occurrence(s)	[19545] ἔχθραν τὲ πολλὴν ἐκ μεγιστάνων νέμει [15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 338 [15th c.] (f. 333r) (7 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Delphine Nachtergaele, Julián Bértola, Ilse De Vos The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 277: "In tractatum astronomicum"
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