Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19742
(formerly occ/3291)

⁘ Σὺ δ' ἱερὴ κεφαλὴ νικηφόρε, λάζεο ταῦτα:
τζέτζῃ πιερίδων ὑποφήτορι τά ποτε μοῦσα,
ἀντομένη, πόρσυνεν ἀφ' ὑψιλόφου ἑλικῶνος·
ἴαχε γὰρ, μέγα οἱ· ὃς δ' ἔκλυεν αὐτίκα μούσης·
μουσά(ων) ὑποφῆτορ· ἀγήνορα κάλλιπε μῦθον:
ἀκρολόφους σκοπιάς τε· (καὶ), ἄκριας ἠνεμοέσσας·
ἐν χθαμαλοῖς προπόδεσσι παρ' ἐσχατίην ὑπὸ βῆσσαν,
ἔρχεο καὶ, πεδανῆς ἀπὸ ἄνθε' ἀμέργεο ποιῆς·
ὡς ἡ μ(ὲν), προσέειπεν· ὁ δ' ἀυτίκα τάμνετο ποιάς·
(καὶ), στεφάνους ποίησε: τεῒν δ' ἀνεθήκατο δῶρα·
Type(s) [3799] Σὺ δ' ἱερὴ κεφαλὴ Νικηφόρε, λάζεο ταῦτα (10 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 1151-1200
Manuscript LEIDEN - Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit - Voss. gr. Q° 1 [1151-1200]
Place in Manuscript f. 211v
Palaeographical information The initial letter is written in red ink.
Contextual information The poem is followed by another book epigram. They are written at the end of the commentary on the four treatises by Hermogenes and precede Tzetzes' Logismoi.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s)
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

A. Pizzone 2024, ‘Receiving Rich Gifts’. Negotiating Power in the Metrical Paratexts of the Vossianus Gr. Q1, in B. van den Berg, N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204). New Texts, New Approaches, Cambridge, 225-255: 225, 228 (image: plate 9.1)
Number of verses 10
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Lev Shadrin

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