Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23169
(formerly occ/7067)

	Εὐγνωστε πατερ εὐσθενῆ σῶτερ μονε· \|
	ὑπερφυὴς πελεις γὰρ ὑψους ἀπλετου·
	σέλας τρί\|φωτον σοῦ μονωτατον κράτος·
	τριττον θυ\|μος μου σφόδρα τηρὼν ὡς τοβητ·
	ῥύθμωσον \| πρὸς σὲ ῥᾶον ὦ παντοκρατωρ·
	ἀκραιφνες οἰκει\|ωσον αἴρων εἰς λία·
	τήρησον εὐσύνοπτα τὸν νοῦν \| ὡς σαφὰτ·
	ἱλὺν καθαίρων ἵν' τέλειος ἐμμένοι· \|
	ὃ τοῦδε θεσαις οὗ πονηματ' ἥπετο·
	σοφοῦ τὰ \| θεῖα σωστικαῖς ταῖς εὐκτίαις ༶ ༶ ༶

Type(s)	[1963] Εὔγνωστε Πάτερ εὐσθενὴς σῶτερ μόνε (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. 136r
Person(s)	Patron Eustratios (10th-11th c.) Scribe Basileios (10th c.) - VGH: 58.A - PMBZ: 23177: "Personenkennziffer: 21024"
Palaeographical information	Written 'en petite capitale' (Somers 1999: 533).
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Comment	In this epigram the acrostic 'ΕΥΣΤΡΑΤΙΟΣ' is repeated three times, at the beginning, in the midst and at the end of each line.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2061/0275
Bibliography	Primary V. Somers 1999, Quelques poèmes en l'honneur de S. Grégoire de Nazianze: édition critique, traduction et commentaire, Byzantion, 69, 528-564: 546
Number of verses	10
Related occurrence(s)	[23170] (...)ὔγνωστε π(άτ)ερ εὐσθενὴ \| σ(ωτ)ερ μόνε [951-1100] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 177 [10th-11th c.] (f. 2r) (10 verses) (9/10) [17207] εὔγνωστε πάτερ εὐσθενῆς σῶτερ μόνε [10th-11th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 8 [11th c.] (f. 158v) (10 verses) (10/10) [22561] Εὔγνωστε π(άτ)ερ εὐσθενῆ σῶτερ μόνε [971] LONDON - British Library - Add. 18231 [971] (f. 87r-87v) (10 verses) (10/10)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Dimitrios Skrekas, 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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