Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21246
(formerly occ/4994)

	ἐστυφελίχθην, ὦ χαρίκλεια κόρη,
	ψυχὴν λογισμ(ὸν) καὶ φρέν(ας) κ(αὶ) καρδίαν.
	ἔγνων σε κ(αὶ) ποθοῦσαν ἐξ εὐστοργίας·
	ὡς ὑπερηγάσθην σε κ(αὶ) κατεπλάγ(ην)
	τοῦ σώφρον(ος) νοῦ τ(ῶν) καλ(ῶν) βουλευμάτ(ων)·
	τ(αῖς) καρτερίας πρὸ(ς) κακ(ῶν) ἀμετρίαν·
	τοῦ τληπαθοῦς ἔρωτος εἰς θεαγέν(ην)·
	ὡς ὀλβία σὺ τ(αῖς) ἐρώσ(αις) παρθένοις·
	ἐῤρωμέν(αις) δὲ πάλιν ὀλβιωτέρα·
	κἂν δυστυχὴς ὁ πρῶτος ἐγνώσθη βίος,
	ἀλλ' εὐτυχὴς ὁ λοῖσθος εὑρέθη γάμος·
	πεῖραν λαβοῦσα ληστρικῆς κακουργί(ας),
	ἄλλ(ων) τε δεινῶν ἐν μεθέξει μυρίων,
	μακρ(ὸν) πλανήτ(ην) ἐκμετρήσασα χρόνον,
	τέλος συνήφθης ὦ καλ(ῶν) νυμφευμάτ(ων),
	τρισευτυχεῖ σῶ νυμφίω θεαγένει:- ++++++++++++

Type(s)	[4678] Ἐστυφελίχθην, ὦ Χαρίκλεια κόρη (16 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1401-1450
Manuscript	MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 157 [1401-1450]
Place in Manuscript	f. 167v
Person(s)	Scribe Isidoros (1380-1390 - 1463) - RGK: I.155, II.205, III.258 - PLP: IV.8300
Palaeographical information	Written in three columns to be read horizontally. Initial letter and ending crosses in red ink.
Contextual information	First of four book epigrams in a colophon on Heliodorus' Aethiopica.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Heliodoros of Emesa < Syria (4th c.) Marriage Theagenes and Charikleia
Comment	Hardt's (1860b: 185) transcription is problematic with several misreadings.
Image source(s)	http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0003/bsb00034261/images/index.html
Bibliography	Primary N. Bianchi 2010, Lettori di Eliodoro a Bizanzio: Il carme per Cariclea, Greaco-Latina Brunensia, 15(2), 13-24: 16-17 K. Hajdú, 2003, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Codices graeci Monacenses 110–180 (vol. 3), Wiesbaden: 256 I. Hardt, 1806, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum Bibliothecae Regiae Bavaricae. Cod. CVI-CCXXXIII continens (vol. 2), Munich: 185
Number of verses	16
Related occurrence(s)	[25462] ἐστυφελίχθην ὦ χαρίκλεια κόρη [1451-1500] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2905 [1451-1500] (f. 154v) (16 verses) (16/16)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Julián Bértola, 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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