Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6896
(formerly typ/4797)

	Ἐγὼ δὲ θηρεῖν προσφέρω σοι στρουθία·
	ταῦρος καὶ ταύρων οἶστρος εἰς Ἀφροδίτην.
	Ὄρνεις μὲν αἰνῶ καὶ νησσῶν ἅπαν γένος,
	στρουθῶν δὲ μικρῶν ἔθνος ἰξῷ προσφέρω
	καὶ προτρέπω τὸ πράσον ἐσθίειν φίλον,
	ἔδεσμα πάντων εὐπρεπὲς τῶν βρωμάτων
	ὃ καὶ καθαίρει πημονὴν τῆς κοιλίας.

Title(s)	Στίχοι εἰς τὸν μήναν τὸν ὀκτώβριον
Text source	B. Keil 1889, Die Monatscyclen der byzantinischen Kunst in spätgriechischer Literatur, Wiener Studien, 11, 94-142: 113 B. Keil 1889, Die Monatscyclen der byzantinischen Kunst in spätgriechischer Literatur, Wiener Studien, 11, 94-142: 118
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Theodore Prodromos (12th c.) - PBW: Theodoros/25001/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Synaxarion
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book
Comment	This entry corresponds only to the first verse, found separately as part of a cycle on monostichs on the months.
Bibliography	Secondary J. Boissonade, 1830, Anekdota. Anecdota Graeca e codicibus regiis (vol. 2), Paris: 69
Number of verses	7
Occurrence(s)	[25828] ἐγὼ δὲ θηρεῖν προσφέρω σοι στρουθ(ία) [1419] LESBOS - Mone tou Leimonos 10 [1419] (f. 203v) (7 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 546: "Theod. Prodromus, In Octobrem"
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