Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21941
(formerly occ/5809)

:βησσαρίωνι καρδιναλίω, τῶ φιλοσόφω:
 
ποιμὴν νικέων· ῥώμης ἱερόστροφος ἄρχων.
βησσαρίων μεγάλης ἠϋσεβὴς ὁσίης:
ὃν πόντος μ(ὲν) γείνατο· εἶχε δὲ γαῖα κρόνοιο·
κῦδος ἄρ’ ἑλλήνων· αὐσονίων τε μέγα:
κεῖτ’ ἐν σήματι τῶ, φοιτᾶ δ’ ἂν ἀπείρονα γαῖαν.
εὐφυΐη, σοφίη, ἥθεϊ, εὐφραδίη:
ὃν τ’ ἐπιεικῶς ἔθνεα πολλὰ κλαῦσε θανόντα·
κλεινὸς ὅ γ’αἰεὶ ζῆ πράξει καὶ συνέσει:
σῶμα μ(ὲν) ὤλετο κείνου, ἀτὰρ κλέος οὕποτ’ ὀλεῖται·
ἐσόκεν ἀμφὶ φέρων, οὐρανὸς ἄστρα θέη:
ῥέζε δὴ ἕλλην ἱερὰ τῶ πατρὶ ῥέζε λατῖνε·
ὅν γ’ ἀρετὴ πέμψεν, δώματ’ ἐς ἀθανάτων:
Type(s) [5168] Ποιμὴν Νικαέων, Ῥώμης ἱερόστροφος ἄρχων (12 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 1475
Manuscript MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 237 [1475]
Place in Manuscript f. 3r
Person(s)
Scribe
Demetrios Raoul Kabakes (15th c.) - RGK: I.95, II.128e, III.162 - VGH: 102.A, 295.B - PLP: V.10016
Metre(s) Elegiacs
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s) Basileios Bessarion (1399-1400 - 18/11/1472) - RGK: I.41, II.61, III.77 - VGH: 59.E - PLP: II.2707 (kardinalios)
Comment This occurrence is not a book epigram strictu sensu, but its scribe, Demetrios Raul Kabakes, belonged to the same intellectual circle as the dedicatee of this epigram, Basileios Bessarion.
Image source(s) http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00017612/image_13
Bibliography

Primary
Number of verses 12
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Dimitrios Skrekas
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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