Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22321
(formerly occ/6204)

	Τοῦ σοφωτάτου φιλῆ στίχοι ἐγκωμιαστικοὶ εἰς τὸν ἀλέξανδρον τὸν βασιλέα +

	Ἃ μὲν (...) χρόνος·
	ὃ δὲ χρόνος δίδωσιν, ἁρπάζει φθόνος·
	(...) τὸν (...)οῖ τῶν πόνων,
	τύχη μὲν ἀπέφηνε παντὸς βελτίω·
	χρόνος δὲ λ(...)χε τοῦ φθόνου.
	αἱ γὰρ ἀγαθαὶ τῶν, φιλιστόρων φύσεις,
	λαθεῖν ἀγεννῶς (...)σι τὸν μέγαν.
	ἐπείπερ αἱ μὲν, δεξιοῦνται τοῖς λόγοις·
	αἱ δὲ χρόαις γρά(...)ὸν στεφανίτην.
	παγκόσμιος γὰρ εὐτυχεῖ τοῦτον πίναξ,
	τοῖς ἀνδραγα(...)στηλωμένον.
	ἔγωγε μὴν τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ πρὶν θαυμάσας,
	νῦν μᾶλλον (...) τῆς πολυζήλου τύχης·
	ἔτι γὰρ ἡβῶν, τῶν γερόντων ἐκράτει.
	καὶ χρημάτων ἤσκησεν ὑπεροψίαν.
	ἀρχὴν ἑαυτῶ παγγενῆ θησαυρίσας.
	καὶ πταίστος ὢν ἄπταιστος εὐθὺς εὑρέθη·
	καὶ γυμνάσας τὸ σῶμα τοῖς ὑπὲρ φύσιν,
	μόνος τὸ πᾶν κατέσχεν ἀπτέρω τάχει.
	αὐτῶ δὲ τῆς γῆς οὐκ ἀποχρώσης ὅλης,
	καὶ δευτέραν δήπουθεν ἐζήτει κτίσιν.
	κἂν εἶχεν αἰθὴρ δυσμενεῖς ἀπροσμάχους,
	ἐκ μηχ(...)νῆς ἂν εἷλε κἀκείνους τάχα +

Type(s)	[5376] Ὃ μὲν τύχη δείκνυσι, καλύπτει χρόνος (50 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1301-1350
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 511 (coll. 590) [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 398v
Palaeographical information	Some parts of the poem are illegible. Mioni (1985: 368): 'Carmen in codice numquam integrum fuit, cum f. 398v dimidium vacuum relictum esset'.
Contextual information	Written after the work 'De expeditione Alexandri' by Arrianos.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Alexander the Great of Pella < Central Macedonia < Greece (356 BC - 323 BC)
Number of verses	23
Related occurrence(s)	[21225] μὲν τύχη δείκνυσι, καλύπτει χρόνος [15th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana E 11 inf. [15th c.] (f. 247r) (50 verses) (21/23) [24939] Ὃ μὲν τύχη δείκνυσι, καλύπτει χρόνος· [15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1642 [15th c.] (f. 276v-277r) (50 verses) (21/23) [22228] Ἃ μὲν (...) χρόνος [1470] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 369 (coll. 1045) [1470] (f. 190v) (23 verses) (23/23)
Acknowledgements	Information on the occurrence courtesy of Krystina Kubina. Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Krystina Kubina Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Ilse De Vos 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: 2019-06-18.

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Occurrence 22321 (formerly occ/6204)

Occurrence 22321
(formerly occ/6204)