Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21348
(formerly occ/5136)

στίχοι χρησματώδεις εἰς ἀνδρόνικον κομνην(ὸν) τὸν τύραννον
 
αἴφνης δ' ἀναστὰς ἐκ τόπου πλήρης πότου,
ἀνὴρ πελιδνὸς ἀγέρωχος τὸν τρόπον,
στικτὸς πολιὸς ποικίλος χαμαιλέων,
ἐπεισπεσεῖται καὶ θερίσει καλάμην·
πλὴν ἀλλὰ κ' αὐτὸς συνθεριστεὶς τῶ χρόνω,
ἐσύστερον τίσει ἐναθλίας δίκας, ὦ
ὧνπερ κακῶς ἔπραξεν ἐν βίω τάλ(ας):
ὁ γὰρ φέρων μάχαιρ(αν), οὐ φεύγει ξίφος:~
καὶ ταῦτ(α), δρεπανηφόρε, τετράμηνόν σε μένει:-
Type(s) [4774] Αἴφνης δ' ἀναστὰς ἐκ τόπου πλήρης πότου (9 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 15th c.
Manuscript MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 495 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 61v
Metre(s)
Genre(s) Reader-related epigram
Subject(s) Andronikos I Komnenos (1118 - 12/09/1185) - PBW: Andronikos/1/
Comment The last line is a political verse.
Image source(s) http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00109230/image_126
Bibliography

Primary

I. Hardt, 1812, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum Bibliothecae Regiae Bavaricae. Cod. CCCCLXXIII-DLXXX continens (vol. 5), Munich: 156-157

Secondary

J. Boeten, S. De Groot 2019, The Byzantine Antiquarian: a Case Study of a Compiled Colophon, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 112, 31-46: 39
Number of verses 9
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Contributor(s)
Julie Boeten, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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