Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19977
(formerly occ/3585)

	δείχνυσο τοῖον δῶρον ἀφ’ ἡμετέροιο πόνοιο,
	ὀλβιόδωρε ἄνασσα κυδίστη ἀριστοτόκεια,
	νυεχαριτοπρόσωπε μεγασθενέων βασιλήων,
	ἣν πλέον ἀστράπουσαν εὐβλεφάροιο σελήνης
	εἰς γάμον ὄλβιον ἤρατο νυμφιδίοις ἐπὶ λέκτροις
	πορφυρόπαις γόνος αὐσονάνακτος καρτερόχειρος,
	ἀνδρόνιος, μεγάθυμος, εὐμελίης πολεμίστης,
	ᾧ γέρα πρῶτα σεβαστοκρατορίης νεῖμ’ ὁ φυτεύσας
	εἰς τοίνυν λυκάβαντας ἀπειρεσίους ἐλάσοι.

Type(s)	[3954] Δέχνυσο τοῖον δῶρον ἀφ’ ἡμετέροιο πόνοιο (9 verses)
Text source	H. Coxe, 1969, Greek Manuscripts, Oxford: 761
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1301-1325
Manuscript	OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Auct. T. 2.5 [1301-1325]
Place in Manuscript	f. 223r
Palaeographical information	Written in black ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Constantine Manasses' Compendium chronicum and is preceded by another book epigram.
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	Lampsidis (1966: I. 4) uses this manuscript but does not give any of its variant readings in the apparatus criticus. Therefore, the text of this occurrence is based on Coxe (1969: 761).
Bibliography	Primary A. Cataldi Palau, 2011, A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts from the Meerman Collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: 214 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 Secondary A. Paul, A. Rhoby, 2019, Konstantinos Manasses. Verschronik, Stuttgart: 59
Number of verses	9
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