Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17175
(formerly occ/302)

	Ῥητρεύσεών σου ὡς ἔφης τὰς ἐκ\|φράσεις·
	Χωλὰς τὸ πῶς νοοῦν\|τες εἰπεῖν οὐκ ἔχω·
	Ἠμείψα\|μέν που ἢ κἐκόψαμεν πάλιν· \|
	Ἀλλʹ ὡς π(ατ)ὴρ σύγγνωθι φιλτάτοις \| τέκνοις·
	Θαρρεῖν γάρ ἐστιν \| οὐ κακίζειν τοῦτό σε ·:·

Type(s)	[2051] Πεπείραμαι κυροῦν, ἐν βραχέσι πλεῖστα (7 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Ross. 251 (olim VIII.190) [1026-1075]
Place in Manuscript	f. 12v
Palaeographical information	Written in Alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel, in red ink. The epigram is written continuously, but the scribe was conscious of the poetic nature of the text, since the separation of the verses is marked by punctuation signs. Moreover, the initial letters of each verse are enlarged.
Contextual information	The poem is preceded by another epigram, inc. 'Πεπείραμαι κυροῦν, ἐν βραχέσι πλεῖστα'. On the following folio John Klimax' Heavenly Ladder begins. The two epigrams are separated by three red crosses.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	John Klimax (6th c. - 7th c.) - PMBZ: 13914: "Personenkennziffer: 2791"
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ross.251/0022
Bibliography	Primary E. Gollob, 1910, Die griechishe Literatur in den Handschriften der Rossiana in Wien (vol. 1), Vienna: 31 C. Osieczkowska 1934, Note sur le Rossianus 251 de la bibliothèque Vaticane, Byzantion, 9(1), 261-268: 262 C. Van de Vorst 1906, Die griechischen Handschriften der Bibliotheca Rossiana, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 23, 492-508, 537-550: 498
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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