Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20133
(formerly occ/3774)

Στίχοι τοῦ κυροῦ κωνσταντίνου βέστου τοῦ γρ**ανατου
 
Ὁ τήνδ᾽ ἀναγνοῦς εὐπρόσδεκτος τὴν βίβλον
μὴ πρὸς τὸ μέτρον ἀπήδεις τὸ τῶν στίχων,
μὴ μαλακισθῇς τῷ σαφεῖ τῶν ῥημάτων
μὴ σχῆμα τυχὸν ῥητορικόν ποὺ σκόπει
μὴ φράσιν ἁβρῶς γλαφυρῶς τ᾽ἠρτυμένην
μὴ κόπον ἄλλον εὔκροτον καὶ ποικίλον,
μηδέν τι θέλγον ἀκοὰς ἀνηνύτος·
ἐκτὸς γὰρ αὕτη θελκτικοῦ παντὸς λόγου
καὶ σῶμα τ᾽ ἐρπον οὔμενοῦν εἴσκηκέ τι,
ψυχὴν τὲ τὰ σῴζοντα καὶ θέλγοντα γε·
ἐνταῦθα πνεῦμα τοίνυν ὄψει καὶ μόνον
καὶ νοῦν θεωρῶν ἐνθέων διδαγμάτων,
τῶν δ’ αὖ ἐκεῖθεν ἱκανὴν γνῶσιν λάβης,
ἐφ’ οἷς ἀναγνῷς, οἷς σκοπείσης εὐστόχως,
εἶς καὶ δράσειας· τοὺς σεβασμίους λόγους
τοῦ τῇδε τούτους εὐφυῶς γεγραφότος,
ἀνδρὸς τιμίου καὶ γέροντος ἁγίου
θαύμαζε, τοῦτων ἀξίων ἐγκωμίων,
γέραιρε, τίμα καὶ σεβάζου καὶ κάλει
φθάνειν ἀεί σοι τοῦδε τὰς δυσωπίας,
ἅς πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ἱλαρῶς ἀναφέρει.
Type(s) [4055] Ὁ τήνδε θέλων ἀναγνῶναι τὴν βίβλον (21 verses)
Text source DBBE
Text status Text completely known
Date 13th-15th c.
Manuscript MODENA - Biblioteca Estense Universitaria α. T. 9. 03 (Puntoni 42; olim II B 5) [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 117v
Person(s)
Scribe
Gregorios (15th c.) - VGH: 95.E (monachos)
Contextual information The epigram is written at the end of Philip Monotropos' Dioptra.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Philip Monotropos (12th c.) (monotropos)
Bibliography

Primary

C. Samberger, 1965, Catalogi codicum graecorum qui in minoribus bibliothecis Italicis asservantur (vol. 1), Leipzig: 324
Number of verses 21
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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