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)	Decapentasyllable Dodecasyllable Mixture
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram
Subject(s)	Andronikos I Komnenos (1118 - 12/09/1185) - PBW: Andronikos/1/ - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PLP: - PMBZ:
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 - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Contributor(s) Julie Boeten - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Rachele Ricceri - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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