Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18830
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Ἄν ὠκεανὸς τὰς θαλάσσας ἐξάγῃ,
Αιθὴρ δ' ὁ λαμπρὸς κερματίζῃ τὴν φλόγα,
Βροντὴν δ' ἀκουστὴν συνθλιβεὶς ἀὴρ φέρῃ·
Πῶς οὐχὶ ῥεῖθρα πνευματόρρυτον χύσιν,
Ποταμὸς ἀκένωτος ἐκ διδαγμάτων,
Ὁ Γρήγορος νοῦς πλημμυρήσει πανσόφως,
Ὡς εἰς ἑκατὸν ἐξενεγκεῖν τὴν χάριν,
Καὶ πῦρ φλογίζον καὶ καθαῖρον τὴν ὕλην,
Νόθους δαπανῶν, εὐσεβεῖς δὲ λαμπρύνον;
Καὶ βροντὰς ἀφεὶς αἰθεροφρόμους λόγους,
Βροτοὺς ἀνυψώσειεν εὐσεβοφρόνως.
Καὶ δὴ κατιδὼν ὡς θεογράφους πλάκας,
Ἐκ τῶν αὔλων μυστικῶν ἀκουσμάτων,
Τὴν βίβλον ὠδὶ συλλαβὼν εὐθυβόλως,
Ἔγγραφε καὶ χάραττε καρδίας πλάτῃ,
Κάλλη νοητῶν σωστικῶν σπουδασμάτων,
Τύπους ἀτερπεῖς σῆς ψυχῆς ἀποξέων·
Ὡς ἂν διαρθῇς εἰς ποθουμένην πόλιν,
Ἐν ᾗ τὰ λαμπρὰ τῆς Ἐδὲμ λάβῃς γέρα.
Type(s) [3063] Ἄν ὠκεανὸς τὰς θαλάσσας ἐξάγῃ (19 verses)
Text source J. Migne, 1858, Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca (vol. 36), Paris: 934
Text status Text completely known
Date 15th c.
Manuscript MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 66 (Vlad. 155) [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 3v-4r
Contextual information The epigram is followed by another book epigram, incipit: Νικητικῶς ἄριστα τὴν κλῆσιν φέρων.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Comment Vladimir (1894: 157) reproduces the title along with the incipit and claims that the epigram comprises 22 verses.
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Number of verses 19
Related occurrence(s) [25255] Ἄν ὠκεανὸς τὰς θαλάσσας ἐξάγῃ [14th c.]
ATHOS - Mone Megistes Lauras Ε 163 (Eustratiades 625) [14th c.] (f. 162r)
(19 verses) (19/19)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Delphine Nachtergaele
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Lev Shadrin, Mathijs Clement, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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