Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23173
(formerly occ/7071)

	Εὐμαρίως ῥυέεις με πάσης \| ἀλόγου λυμιαίης· \|
	Ὕπτια ῥύβδην μισθάρνια πήματά μου· \|
	Σκεδάσας αὐτομάτως \| ἕωλα πόρειτ' ἀπρὶξ ἄρδην \|
	Τέλματα πάμπαν ἀφαιρῶν \| πονέοντ' ἄκρω· \|
	Ῥύθμισον ὦ κατʹ ἀνώτατα \| πάντων πρύτανις ἄμμων· \|
	Ἀλλʹ ἄνα τῆσδέ με παμφωτί\|ας ἐλλογίμου· \|
	Τευκτέα βίβλου θεοφυλακτ(ον) \| δμῶα δ' ἀχρεῖον ὂντα \|
	Ἰσχάνας ἀμπλακίης ὄλ\|βιον ἔργα τέτον· \|
	Ὅλκεον εὐσύνοπτον πν(εύματο)ς \| σέθεν θείου· \|
	Σκοπίαν ἐμφαίνων ἄρ\|τιον ἀλκιτάτην:

Type(s)	[2153] Εὐμαρίως ῥυέεις με πάσης ἀλόγου λυμιαίης (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. Before each verse, either ἡρω(ικός) or ἐλεγ(εῖος) is added in the left margin as a metrical indication.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Comment	The initials of each verse form the acrostic 'ΕΥΣΤΡΑΤΙΟΣ' (i.e. the name of the patron).
Bibliography	Primary S. Lucà 1991, Scritture e libri della «scuola niliana», in G. Cavallo, G. De Gregorio, M. Maniaci (eds.), Scritture, libri e testi nelle aree provinciali di Bisanzio. Atti del Seminario di Erice (18-25 settembre 1988) (vol. 1), Spoleto, 319-387: 376 V. Somers 1999, Quelques poèmes en l'honneur de S. Grégoire de Nazianze: édition critique, traduction et commentaire, Byzantion, 69, 528-564: 548
Number of verses	10
Related occurrence(s)	[16906] εὐμαρίως ῥυέης με πάσης ἀλόγου λυμιαίης [10th-11th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 8 [11th c.] (f. 158v) (10 verses) (9/10) [22562] Εὐμαρίως ῥυέης με πάσης ἀλόγ(ο)υ λυμιαίης [971] LONDON - British Library - Add. 18231 [971] (f. 87v) (10 verses) (9/10) [23174] Εὐμαριως ῥυεης με πασης ἀλογου λυμιαι(...) [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, 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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