Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23167
(formerly occ/7066)

	༶ ὁ κτήτωρ ༶

	Ἔθελξας εὖ με τοῖσδε τοῖς θεορρύτοις·
	ὑπερφερὴς πέλουσα κοσμίως λόγοις·
	σεπτὴ διαμπὰξ βίβλε παμφαεστάτη·
	ταύτη προχείρως ὧν ἔφησας δογμάτων·
	ῥύβδην ὑπάρξω καὶ τισω φθόνου ἄτερ·
	ἀπρὶξ λιτοῦσιν εὐθὺς εἰ βίβλον λάβω·
	τιμὴν ταλαντεύουσα σοῦ τῆς εὐθύμου·
	ἴσην ὅπως σε μοι τίσουσιν εὖ μάλα·
	ὄντως γὰρ οὑτως εἰ δράσω καθὼς ἔφης
	στίφη διωξω τῶν φθορευόντων νόας ༶

Type(s)	[1920] Ἔθελξας εὖ με τοῖσδε τοῖς θεορρύτοις (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	10th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2061 [10th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 135v
Person(s)	Patron Eustratios (10th-11th c.) Scribe Basileios (10th c.) - VGH: 58.A - PMBZ: 23177: "Personenkennziffer: 21024"
Palaeographical information	Written in majuscule, in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Comment	The initial letters of the first word on each line form the acrostic 'ΕΥΣΤΡΑΤΙΟΣ' (i.e. the name of the patron).
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2061/0274
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)	[23166] Ἔθελξας εὔ με τοῖσδε \| τοῖς θεορρύτοις [951-1100] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 177 [10th-11th c.] (f. 2r) (10 verses) (10/10) [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)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, 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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