Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23121
(formerly occ/7012)

	+ ἔσφυζον· εἶχον ἄσχετον πάλαι πόθον·
	οὓς πλάστα πάντων οὐχ᾽ ὅλη χωρεῖ κτίσις·
	λόγους χαράξαι σῶν μαθητῶν καὶ φίλων·
	ἐν παγκάλωι δὴ καὶ διαυγεῖ πτυκτίωι·
	ἔχειν τε τούτους φῶς· πνοὴν· βίου κλέος·
	ἔληξα τοῦ πόθου δὲ νῦν· κατ’ ἀξίαν
	ἔκτοσθεν· ἐντὸς πανταχοῦ. καλλωπίσας·
	καὶ τοῦτο προστέθεικα τῆι τεχνουργίαι·
	ὡς ῥᾶιστα γάρ τις παντας εὕροι τοὺς τόπους·
	ἐφ᾽ οὓς μετελθεῖν βούλεται πόνου δίχα·
	ὡς εὐθείαι πρὶν στάθμηι προσσχὼν ἐμπείρως,
	τοῖς ἐν πίνακη προσφυῶς γεγραμμένοις·
	ἀλλ᾽ ὦ βλύσας ἄβυσσον ἐνθέων λόγων·
	ὡς ἐκ κρήνης ῥεύσασαν σῶν μυστῶν γλώττης·
	ψυχὴν ἐμὴν ἄνικμον ἐν καιρῶι δίκης·
	εἴης ποτίζων καινὸν ἄμβροτον πόμα·
	ὃ σοὺς μαθητὰς εἶπας ἐκπίνειν τότε· +

Type(s)	[2626] Ἔσφυζον, εἶχον ἄσχετον πάλαι πόθον (17 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 219 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 3v
Palaeographical information	Written in 'epigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Apostles Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Comment	Vv. 11 and 14 feature a marginal note: ὁλοσπόνδ(ειος), in reference to the metrical structure of the verses consisting entirely of spondaic feet. See Lauxtermann (2019: 270) and Wescher (1864: 351-52).
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b107220628/f9.item
Bibliography	Primary B. De Montfaucon, 1708, Palaeographia graeca sive de ortu et progressu literarum graecarum, Paris: 283-284 R. Stefec 2011, Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Byzantion, 81, 326-361: 336-337 C. Wescher 1864, Note relative à un passage de la Paléographie grecque de Montfaucon corrigé d'après un manuscrit de la Bibliothéque impériale, Revue archéologique, 10, 350-354: 351-352 Secondary B. Atsalos, 1971, La terminologie du livre-manuscrit à l'époque byzantine, Thessaloniki: 96 M. Lauxtermann, 2019, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 2), Vienna: 270
Number of verses	17
Related occurrence(s)	[18178] ἔσφυζον· εἶχον ἄσχετον πάλαι πόθον [1276-1325] ATHOS - Mone Iberon 29 [1276-1325] (f. 160v) (12 verses) (12/17) [18456] Ἔσφυζον, εἶχον ἄσχετον πάλαι πόθον [12th c.] ISTANBUL - Oikoumenikon Patriarcheion Patriarchikon Skeuofulakion 3 [12th c.] (f. 131v-132r) (12 verses) (11/17) [23671] ἔσφυζον εἶχον ἄσχετον πά\|λαι πόθον [12th-13th c.] LONDON - British Library - Egerton 2783 [12th-13th c.] (f. 164v-165v) (12 verses) (11/17)
Acknowledgements	Information on the occurrence courtesy of Georgi Parpulov. Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Lisa-Lou Péchillon Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Ilse De Vos, Lev Shadrin The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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