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Type 5737
(formerly typ/3766)

	Λοῖσθος ἀνὴρ ἄριστος ὡς ἐγὼ κρίνω,
	Γεωργίου τε φημὶ καὶ Θεοφάνους.
	Τῶν χρονογράφων. Τῆσδε τῆς βίβλου πάτερ
	Ἰωάννης σοι ταύτης φίλε δαιμόνων
	ὁ τῶν προέδρων πρῶτος, ἀλλὰ καὶ θύτης
	Διοκαισαρείας τῆς Ἀναζάρβης.

Text source	F. Kolovou 2010, Die Griechischen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, in A. Bravo García, I. Pérez Martín (eds.), The Legacy of Bernard de Montfaucon: Three Hundred Years of Studies on Greek Handwriting. Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium of Greek Palaeography (Madrid - Salamanca, 15-20 September 2008) (vol. 1), Turnhout, 395-401: 398
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ioannes of Anazarbus < Cilicia < Asia Minor < Turkey (protos ton proedron, thytes of Anazarbus < Cilicia < Asia Minor < Turkey)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ioannes of Anazarbus < Cilicia < Asia Minor < Turkey (protos ton proedron, thytes of Anazarbus < Cilicia < Asia Minor < Turkey) Joseph Genesios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 25680: "Personenkennziffer: 23526"
Tag(s)	Address to the author Praise of the author Self-presentation
Bibliography	Primary A. Lesmüller-Werner, H. Thurn, 1978, Iosephi Genesii regum libri quattuor, Berlin: XXv-XXV
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[23082] λοῖσθο(ς) ἀνὴρ ἄριστο(ς) ὡς ἐγὼ κρίνω [11th-12th c.] LEIPZIG - Universitätsbibliothek - gr. 16 [9th-13th c.] (f. 285r-285v) (6 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 2011, 236: "Ioann. ep. Anazarbensis, In laudem Iosephi Genesii"
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