Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4968
(formerly typ/3027)

	Γραφῆς ἔλαβον τερμάτωσιν ἀρτίως
	τὰ βουκολικὰ τοῦ Θεοκρίτου μέλη,
	ὃν Μουσῶν ἄθροισμα ἀοιδῆς πλῆσε λιγείης,
	καὶ πᾶς τις εὔφρων καὶ σοφιστείας γέμων
	λόγων καταστέφει σε τοῖς ἐγκωμίοις,
	Θεόκριτε πρώτιστε τῶν Δωριέων,
	ὡς προκριθεὶς γὰρ ἐκ θεῶν τῶν μακάρων,
	κρίνεις νόας κάλλιστα γενναίων νέων.

Text source	F. Bancalari 1894, Index codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Casanatensis, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica (SIFC), 2, 161-207: 173
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Nine Muses Theokritos (315 BC-260 BC)
Tag(s)	Completion of the book Praise of the author
Comment	Text of Bancalari (1894: 173) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary C. Samberger, 1968, Catalogi codicum graecorum qui in minoribus bibliothecis Italicis asservantur (vol. 2), Leipzig: 215
Number of verses	8
Occurrence(s)	[23356] Γραφῆς ἔλαβον (...) [1476-1500] EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca Υ.III.15 [1476-1500] (f. 196r) (8 verses) [21697] γραφῆς ἔλαβον τερμάτωσιν ἀρτίως [1413] ROME - Biblioteca Casanatense 306 [1413] (f. 226v) (8 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 123: "Ad calcem idylliorum Theocriti"
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