Epigram 7.158

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Codex Palatinus 23 p. 229

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Μαρκέλλου τόδε σῆμα περικλυτοῦ ἰητῆρος,
φωτὸς κυδίστοιο τετιμένου ἀθανάτοισιν,
οὗ βίβλους ἀνέθηκεν ἐυκτιμένῃ ἐνὶ Ῥώμῃ
Ἀδριανός προτέρων προφερέστερος ἡγεμονήων,

καὶ πάις Ἀδριανοῖο μέγ᾽ ἔξοχος Ἀντωνῖνος,

ὄφρα καὶ ἐσσομένοισι μετ᾽ ἀνδράσι κῦδος ἄροιτο
εἵνεκεν εὐεπίης, τὴν οἱ πόρε Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων,
ἡρῴῳ μέλψαντι μέτρῳ θεραπήια νούσων
βίβλοις ἐν πινυταῖς Χειρωνίσι τεσσαράκοντα.

— Paton edition

E' di Marcello la tomba. Fu medico molto famoso,
uomo coperto di gloria, tenuto dai numi in onore.
Volle in Roma superba raccolti i suoi libri Adriano,
che sopra tutti i sovrani passati prevalse, e del pari
quegli che fu d'Adriano figliolo, l'eccelso Antonino,
sí che la gloria cogliesse fra gli uomini ancora a venire
per virtù d'eloquenza, che Febo gli diede copiosa.
Egli in esametri tutte descrisse le cure dei morbi,
in quei Chironidi libri sapienti, che sono quaranta.

— Pontani, Filippo Maria (1978-81) (ed.): Antologia Palatina, 4 vols., Torino.

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Μαρκέλλου τόδε σῆμα περικλυτοῦ ἰητῆρος ,
φωτὸς κυδίστοιο τετιμένου ἀθανάτοισιν ,
οὗ βίβλους ἀνέθηκεν ἐυκτιμένῃ ἐνὶ Ῥώμῃ
Ἀδριανός προτέρων προφερέστερος ἡγεμονήων ,

καὶ πάις Ἀδριανοῖο μέγ ἔξοχος Ἀντωνῖνος ,

ὄφρα καὶ ἐσσομένοισι μετ ἀνδράσι κῦδος ἄροιτο
εἵνεκεν εὐεπίης , τὴν οἱ πόρε Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων ,
ἡρῴῳ μέλψαντι μέτρῳ θεραπήια νούσων
βίβλοις ἐν πινυταῖς Χειρωνίσι τεσσαράκοντα .

This is the tomb of Marcellus the renowned
physician , a most celebrated man , honoured by the
gods , whose books were presented ( to the public
library ) in fair - built Rome by Hadrian the best of
our former emperors , and by admirable Antoninus ,
Hadrian ' s son ; so that among men in after years
he might win renown for his eloquence , the gift
of Phoebus Apollo . He sung of the treatment of
diseases in forty skilled books of heroic verse called
the Chironides .

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