Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4045
(formerly typ/2137)

	Τὸν τοῦ φιλοσόφου βίον Ἥρωνος μίμησαι,
	καὶ μετὰ τῆς χλαμύδος τὸν παράδεισον ἔχοις.

Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Subject(s)	Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Tag(s)	(Spiritual) advice to the reader Introduction to the subject Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	(...) Heronem imitare, Ut cum chlamyde Paradisum habeas. Language Latin Source(s) A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 209
Comment	The first verse seems to be a hexameter with metrical failures, forming an elegiac couplet with the second pentameter verse.
Bibliography
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[19212] (...) ἥρωνο(ς) μίμησαι [12th-15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 7 [12th c.] (f. 184v) (2 verses) [20119] Τὸν τοῦ φιλοσόφου βίον Ἥρωνος μίμησαι [11th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 36 [11th c.] (f. 148v) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Renaat Meesters The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 783: "In Greg. Nazianzeni orat. 25 in laudem Heronis"
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