Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22986
(formerly occ/6880)

	+ τῶν μακκαβαίων ἡ ἀριστεία ξένη:
	ὡς ἑπτάφωτος \| λυχνια γὰρ ἐν μέσω:
	σὺν τη γεραιᾶ μητρὶ καὶ τω πρεσβύτη: \|
	τεθεισα τῶν μὲν τὴν τύραννον μανίαν:
	καθεῖρξεν τῶν δὲ τὴν νομοκράτιν φύσιν: \|
	ξένοτροφοῦσαν ἡλίου δίκην φέρει:-

Type(s)	[5704] [Τ]ῶν Μακκαβαίων ἡ ἀριστεία ξένη (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	926-975
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 1 [926-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 450v
Person(s)	Patron Leon Sakellarios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 26573: "Personenkennziffer: 24419"
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in Spitzbogenmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram surrounds a miniature depicting Eleazar and the Maccabees before king Antiochus.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Antiochus IV Epiphanes (215 BC - 164 BC) Eleazar Makkabees
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.gr.1.pt.B/0036
Bibliography	Primary C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 74 T. Mathews 1977, The Epigrams of Leo Sacellarios and an Exegetical Approach to the Miniatures of Vat. Reg. Gr. 1, Orientalia Christiana periodica, 43, 94-134: 132 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 489-490 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 348
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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