Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4487
(formerly typ/2589)

	Ἡ ἀτρεκὴς σοφίη δηρὸν χθονίους προλιποῦσα
	νοῦν Θεοδώρου δεύ τῆδ’ ἤλυθεν εὐραμένη
	αὐδὴν τῷ μοῦσαι δόσαν ἑλλάδα τ’αὐσονίην τε
	ὡς σοφίης μεταδῶ ἀμφοτέρῳ γένει.
	Νῦν δὲ θανὼν φεῦ ἤπιος ὢν λίπεν ἄλγεα πᾶσι
	Ψυχὴ δ’ἐς μακάρων ὤχετ’ ἀποπταμένη.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Demetrios Chalkondyles of Athenai < Attike < Greece (1424 - 1511) - RGK: I.105 - VGH: 107.C
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined J. Iriarte, 1769, Regiae Bibliothecae Matritensis codices graeci mss., Madrid: 257
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[21953] ἡ ἀτρεκὴς σοφίη δηρὸν χθονίους προλιποῦσα [15th c.] MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4621 (olim N 72) [1476-1500] (f. 2r) (6 verses) [20951] Ἡ ἀτρεκὴς σοφίη δηρὸν χθονίους προλιποῦσα [1476-1500] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana G 26 sup. [1476-1500] (f. IIr) (6 verses) [21947] ἡ ἀτρεκὴς σοφίη δηρὸν χθονίους προλιποῦσα [15th c.] MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 237 [1475] (f. 3r) (6 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, 291: "Epitaphium in Theodorum Gazem"
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