Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17780
(formerly occ/1034)

	ἐπίγραμμα τοῦ συγγραφέως

	Δέχνυσο τοῖον δῶρον. ἀφ’ ἡμετέροιο πόνοιο,
	ὀλβιόδωρε ἄνασσα, κυδίστη ἀριστοτόκεια,
	νυὲ χαριτοπρόσωπε μεγασθενέ(ων) βασιλήων, \|\|
	ἣν πλέον ἀπαστράπτουσαν ἐϋβλεφάροιο σελήνης·
	εἰς γάμον ὅλβιον ἤρατο νυμφιδίοις ἐπὶ λέκτροις,
	πορφυρόπαις γόνος αὐσονάνακτος καρτεροῖο,
	ἀνδρόνικος μεγάθυμος, ἐϋμελίης πολεμιστὴς,
	ὧ γέρα πρῶτα σεβαστοκρατορίης, νοῖμ’ ὁ φυτεύσας.
	εἰς τοίνυν λυκάβαντ(ας) ἀπειρεσίους ἐλάσειας.

Type(s)	[3954] Δέχνυσο τοῖον δῶρον ἀφ’ ἡμετέροιο πόνοιο (9 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th-14th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 170 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 170v-171r
Palaeographical information	Title and initial in red ink, possibly by a different hand.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Constantine Manasses' 'Compendium chronicum'.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Andronikos Komnenos (1108 - 1142) - PBW: Andronikos/109/ Eirene Sebastokratorissa (12th c.) - PBW: Eirene/20115/
Comment	One more line at the end of the poem has been crossed out.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.170/0008
Bibliography	Primary O. Lampsidis 1984, Zur Sebastokratorissa Eirene, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 34, 91-105: 103 O. Lampsidis, 1996, Constantini Manassis Breviarium chronicum. Praefationem et textum continens (vol. 1), Athens: 4 G. Mercati, P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, 1923, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1-329 (vol. 1), Rome: 194
Number of verses	9
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) 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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