Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23002
(formerly occ/6897)

	Αἰὼν ὁ μακρὸς ὥσπερ ἄνθη τοὺς λόγους
	Ἁπανταχοῦ γῆς ἔσχεν ἐσκεδασμένους,
	Ἀνθοῦντας, οὐ πέμποντας εὔπνοον χάριν.
	Τὰ νῦν δὲ τούτοις εὐστεφὴς Κωνσταντῖνος
	Δρέψας, ἀγείρας ἐμμελεῖ μουσουργίᾳ
	Προύθηκε πᾶσιν θελκτικὴν εὐοσμίαν,
	Ὅσοις λόγου μέτεστιν, εὐώδεις λόγους.
	Ὅν τοῖς λόγοις στέφωμεν ὡς λόγων φίλον.
	Ἀσυγκρίτως γὰρ ἐν μέδουσιν ἐκπρέπει,
	Λάμπων, προφαίνων χρηστότητα τοῦ κράτους
	Γίγας φεραυγὴς ὥσπερ ἡλίου φάος
	Ἐχθροῖς ἅπασιν, εὐνόοις θ’ ὑπηκόοις.
	Οὐκοῦν βοάτω πρὸς θεὸν πᾶς τις μέροψ·
	Τιθωνὸν αὐτὸν δεῖξον ἄλλον ἐν χρόνοις,
	Ὡς ἂν τὰ λῷστα τῷ βίῳ συνεισφέροι.

Type(s)	[5718] Αἰὼν ὁ μακρὸς ὥσπερ ἄνθη τοὺς λόγους (15 verses)
Text source	T. Büttner-Wobst, 1906, Excerpta historica iussu imp. Constantini Porphyrogeniti confecta. Excerpta de virtutibus et vitiis (vol. 2.1), Berolini: 3
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	TOURS - Bibliothèque Municipale 980 [951-975]
Person(s)	Patron Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos (17/05/905-18/05/905 - 09/11/959) - PBW: Konstantinos/7/ - PMBZ: 25888: "Personenkennziffer: 23734"
Contextual information	Németh (2018: 63): "It was copied directly after the proem and the list of contents, perhaps on the last page of the initial double-leaf of the deluxe manuscript, although the text on it survives only in two transcriptions from the early seventeenth century".
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos (17/05/905-18/05/905 - 09/11/959) - PBW: Konstantinos/7/ - PMBZ: 25888: "Personenkennziffer: 23734"
Comment	The epigram is no longer preserved in this manuscript, because some of its folios have been destroyed (see Németh (2018: 270), Büttner-Wobst (1906: XXIII), Collon (1905: 704)). Büttner-Wobst reprinted the poem by the edition of Valesius 1634 (Büttner-Wobst (1906: 1, 3)).
Bibliography	Primary H. de Valois, 1634, Diodori Siculi, Nicolai Damasceni, Dionysii Halicar., Appiani Alexand., Dionis et Joannis Antiocheni excerpta ex collectaneis Constantini Augusti Porphyrogenetae, Paris: 6 A. Németh, 2018, The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past, Cambridge: 268-269 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 354 P. Lemerle, 1971, Le premier humanisme byzantin. Notes et remarques sur enseignement et culture à Byzance des origines au Xe siècle, Paris: 280 A. Németh, 2018, The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past, Cambridge: 63, 270
Number of verses	15
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Julián Bértola, 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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