Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17379
(formerly occ/572)

	τόνος τέτευχεν ἀμβλὺν ὦ φίλος πόθον:‒
	ἔρως δέδειχε τοῦ ποθουμένου κόπον:‒
	κόπωι μίμησαι καὶ πόθωι πλείστωι φίλει:‒
	καὶ πεῖραν πύθηι ἀῤῥήτου θεωρίας:‒
	αἴρουσαν ἐκτείλουσαν σῆς ψυχῆς ἄλγη:‒
	τήκουσαν καθαίρουσαν ἅπαντα ῥύπον:‒
	ἄγουσαν καὶ φέρουσαν πρὸς θεοπτίαν:‒
	ἐς ὑψοποιῶν ἀναβάσεων βάθη:‒
	τῆς ἀρχιφώτου μακαρίας τριάδος:‒

Type(s)	[2157] Τόνος τέτευχεν ἀμβλύν, ὦ φίλος, πόθον (9 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1099
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 422 [1099]
Place in Manuscript	f. 274r
Person(s)	Scribe Loukas (11th c.) - VGH: 268.B (monachos)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	John Klimax (6th c. - 7th c.) - PMBZ: 13914: "Personenkennziffer: 2791"
Comment	Another image in Harlfinger (1983): Tafel 90.
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279380393-ms/?sp=277
Bibliography	Primary K. Bentein, F. Bernard, M. De Groote, K. Demoen 2009, Book Epigrams in Honor of the Church Fathers: Some Inedita from the Eleventh Century, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 49(2), 281-294: 292-293 D. Harlfinger, D. Reinsch, J. Sonderkamp, G. Prato, 1983, Specimina Sinaitica. Die datierten griechischen Handschriften des Katharinen-Klosters auf dem Berge Sinai, 9. bis 12. Jahrhundert, Berlin: 39
Number of verses	9
Acknowledgements	Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Nina Sietis The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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