Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23170
(formerly occ/7068)

	(...)ὔγνωστε π(άτ)ερ εὐσθενὴ \| σ(ωτ)ερ μόνε· \|
	(...)περφυὴς πέλεις γὰρ ὕ\|ψους ἀπλέτου· \|
	σέλας τρίφωτον σοῦ \| μονότατον κράτος· \|
	τριττὸν θυμός μου σφό\|δρα τηρὼν ὡς τοβητ· \|
	ῥύθμωσον πρὸς σὲ ῥᾶον \| ὦ παντοκράτωρ'· \|
	ἀκρεφνὲς οἰκείωσον αἴ\|ρων εἰς λίαν· \|
	τήρησον εὐσύνοπτα τὸν νοῦν \| ὡς σάφατ'· \|
	ἰλὺν καθαίρων ἵν' τέλειος \| ἐμμένοι· \|
	ὁ τοῦδε θέσαις οὗ πονη\|ματ' ἥπετο· \|
	σοφοῦ τὰ θεία· σωστικαῖς \| ταῖς εὐκτίαις·

Type(s)	[1963] Εὔγνωστε Πάτερ εὐσθενὴς σῶτερ μόνε (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 in honor of the patron.
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.
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)	[17207] εὔγνωστε πάτερ εὐσθενῆς σῶτερ μόνε [10th-11th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 8 [11th c.] (f. 158v) (10 verses) (9/10) [22561] Εὔγνωστε π(άτ)ερ εὐσθενῆ σῶτερ μόνε [971] LONDON - British Library - Add. 18231 [971] (f. 87r-87v) (10 verses) (9/10) [23169] Εὐγνωστε πατερ εὐσθενῆ σῶτερ μονε [10th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2061 [10th c.] (f. 136r) (10 verses) (9/10)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Rachele Ricceri, Mathijs Clement The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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