Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21409
(formerly occ/5226)

	Γαῖαν ἄπειρον καὶ πόλον εὐρῦν σεισμὸ(ς) (...)κάνει·
	φρικαλέος μάλ’ ἄπα ἔτι, σκυτεῦ \| οἶδα σε φάντα·
	σάλπηξ δ’ ἠχήσει μέγα· (...) νεκροὶ τ’ ὄψοντας φάος·
	οὐχὶ σὺ κυρύσσον \| ἐλέλιξας ἄπασαν αἴαν,
	ου σάλπιγγος ἆρα γεγονότερος σέθεν φθόγογο(ς) (?)
	οὐκασε βίη νήγρετον κνῶσσ(ὸν)τες ἴδον ἦμι(ους)
	εὐσεβίης γλυκύθυμον σαῖς ἐφετμαῖς \| μεγαλῆτορ,
	τί κινέσεις ἀκίνητα· θ(ε)ῶ μή μ’ ἰσοφάριζε·
	θνητ(ὸν) ἐόντα ἀθανάτω \| πάντα βίη ποιεῦντι·
	καὶ σὺ λυκάς τοῦ θ(εὸ)ς (?) εὔστοχα μάλ’ ἐνομίσθης
	(καὶ) νῦν θ(εὸ)ς θετὸ(ς) \| ἐστὶ· θ(εο)υ μεθέξει πάϊς,
	χ(ριστὸ)ς ἑοῖσι φίλισιν ὁπάζει (καὶ) τόδε κύδο(ς) +

Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 26 [10th-11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 379r
Palaeographical information	Written by the main scribe of the manuscript.
Contextual information	This poem is the first in a series of two epigrams (the latter of which is written by a later hand).
Metre(s)	Decapentasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram
Subject(s)	Last Judgment
Comment	Devreesse (1945: 22): '(f. 379) vers de quinze syllabes sur le jugement dernier'.
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110001885/f4.item
Bibliography	Primary R. Devreesse, 1945, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des manuscripts. Catalogue des manuscripts grecs. Le fonds Coislin (vol. 2), Paris: 22
Number of verses	12
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) 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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Last modified: 2023-09-12.