Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23166
(formerly occ/7065)

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	Ἔθελξας εὔ με τοῖσδε \| τοῖς θεορρύτοις· \|
	ὑπερφερὴς πέλουσα \| κοσμίως λόγοις· \|
	σεπτὴ διαμπὰξ βίβλε \| παμφαεστάτη· \|
	ταύτη προχείρως ὧν ἔ\|φησας δογμάτων· \|
	ῥύβδιν ὑπάρξω καὶ τίσω \| φθόνου ἄτερ· \|
	ἀπρὶξ λιτοῦσιν εὐθὺς εἰ \| βίβλον λάβω· \|
	τιμὴν, ταλαντεύουσα σοῦ \| τῆς εὐθύμου· \|
	ἴσην ὅπως σέ μοι τίσουσιν \| εὖ μάλα·
	ὄντως γὰρ οὕτως εἰ δράσω \| καθὼς ἔφης· \|
	στίφη διώξω τῶν φθορευ\|όντων νόας:

Type(s)	[1920] Ἔθελξας εὖ με τοῖσδε τοῖς θεορρύτοις (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	951-1100
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 177 [10th-11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2r
Person(s)	Patron Eustratios (10th-11th c.) Scribe Theophylaktos Nazeraios (10th-11th c.) - VGH: 148.B - PMBZ: 30393: "Personenkennziffer: 28238"
Palaeographical information	Written 'en minuscule, sauf l'initiale de chaque vers' (Somers 1999: 532).
Contextual information	Written together with other epigrams.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Comment	The initial letters of the first word on each line form the Acrostich: ΕΥΣΤΡΑΤΙΟΣ (i.e. the name of the patron).
Bibliography	Primary V. Somers 1999, Quelques poèmes en l'honneur de S. Grégoire de Nazianze: édition critique, traduction et commentaire, Byzantion, 69, 528-564: 544 Secondary S. Lucà 2009, Sulla sottoscrizione in versi del Vat. gr. 2000 (ff. 1-154), in C. Braidotti, E. Dettori, E. Lanzillotta (eds.), Οὐ πᾶν ἐφήμερον. Scritti in memoria di Roberto Pretagostini, Rome, 275-308: 298
Number of verses	10
Related occurrence(s)	[19225] ἔθελξας εὖ με τοῖσδε τοῖς θεορρύτοις· [10th-11th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 8 [11th c.] (f. 158r) (10 verses) (10/10) [22556] Ἔθελξας εὖ με τοῖσδε τοῖς θεορρύτοις [971] LONDON - British Library - Add. 18231 [971] (f. 87r) (10 verses) (10/10) [17793] ἔθελξας εὔμαι τοῖσδε τοῖς θε(...)\|ρήτοις· [1276] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 644 [1276] (f. 348v) (4 verses) (1/10) [23167] Ἔθελξας εὖ με τοῖσδε τοῖς θεορρύτοις [10th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2061 [10th c.] (f. 135v) (10 verses) (10/10)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, 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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