Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24867
(formerly occ/8859)

	Αὕτη κατασπᾶ ῥιζόθεν \| πλείστας πόλ(εις) \|
	αὕτη ταράσσει κ(αὶ) κλονεῖ πο\|λλ(οὺ)ς δόμους \|
	αὕτη διιστᾶ τέκνα τῶν \| γεννητόρων· \|
	αὕτη συνοικέσια νοσφίζει \| φίλα· \|
	αὕτη στερίσκει τοὺς νέους \| λόγ(ων) κλέους \|
	αὕτη προφαὴς \| βρῶσις οὐσίας πάσης \|\|
	αὕτη φλέγον πῦρ καὶ βέλος διαβόλου \|
	ταύτης ἀπορράγηθι τοιγαροῦν τέκνον, \|
	εἴπερ τυχεῖν βούλοιο δόξης τῆς ἄνω· \|
	ἧσπερ λιταῖς, τύχοιμι τῶν ἀποστόλων, \|
	ὁ τῆς σολεντοῦς εὐτελ(ὴς) λογοπλόκος:-

Type(s)	[6584] Αὕτη κατασπᾶ ῥιζόθεν πλείστας πόλεις (11 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1288-1291
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Barb. gr. 102 [1288-1291]
Place in Manuscript	f. 150r-150v
Person(s)	Scribe Nikolaos Agiopetrites (1251-1300) - RGK: II.446, III.526 - VGH: 345.A - PLP: VIII.20469
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.gr.102
Bibliography	Primary C. Gallavotti 1983, Nota sulla schedografia di Moscopulo e suoi precedenti fino a Theodoro Prodromo, Bollettino dei Classici, 4, 3-35: 19 I. Hutter, 2022, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Corpus der Italogriechischen dekorierten Handschriften der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (vol. 6.2), Stuttgart: 970
Number of verses	11
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Mathijs Clement, Eleonora Lauro The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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