Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17292
(formerly occ/462)

	† ἄναξ ῥωμανὲ τῆς ὅλης οἰκουμέν(ης)
	ἀπῆλθες ἐστράτευσας ὡπλίσω πάλιν.
	ἀλλ’ ἀντανῆλθεν ἡ στράτευσ(ις) εἰς φόνους
	βουλῆ πονηρᾶ τῶν κρατώντ(ων) αὐσόν(ων)
	βέβηλος ὥσπερ ἐστερήθης ὀμμάτων
	βίου τὲ τὴν στέρησ(ιν) ὑπέστης ἄναξ·
	γελῶσι νῦν ἅπαντες ἐχθροὶ συντόμως
	γέλωτα θερμ(ὸν) οὐχ ὅρον κεκτημένον.

Type(s)	[5768] Ἄναξ Ῥωμανὲ τῆς ὅλης οἰκουμένης (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	12th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1711 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 394v
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Romanos IV Diogenes - PBW: Romanos/4/
Comment	De Boor (1963: 379): 'Der genannte Kaiser Romanus ist ohne Zweifel Romanus IV Diogenes, welcher a. 1073 das angedeute Schiksal erlitt'.
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10723005g/f298.item
Bibliography	Primary C. De Boor, 1963, Theophanis Chronographia, Leipzig: 379 P. Odorico 2012, Poésies à la marge, réflexions personnelles? Quelques observations sur les poésies du Parisinus graecus 1711, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 207-224: 217 A. Sakellaridou-Sotiroudi, 1989, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung des 'Georgius Continuatus' (Redaktion A), Thessaloniki: 28
Number of verses	8
Acknowledgements	Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Last modified: 2019-08-14.