Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24903
(formerly occ/8895)

	+ ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τ(ὸν) ἅγ(ιον) διονύσ(ιον)·

	Μουσοπόλας μελεδῶνας ἐνὶ πραπίδεσσιν ἑλίξ(ας),
	μοῦνος ἐνὶ μερόπεσσι μακάρτατον εὕραο κῦδος·
	ῥήτρην εὐκέλαδον γλυκεροῖς στομάτεσσιν ἀείσας,
	ὀλβιοτεύκτων ἀν(θρώπ)ων ἠγλάισας φῦλα +

Type(s)	[2376] Μουσοπόλας μελεδῶνας ἐνὶ πραπίδεσσιν ἑλίξας (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th-15th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 376 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 11v
Palaeographical information	The title and the initial letters of each verse are written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is followed by another poem on Dionysius the Aeropagite, inc. Εἰς νόον αἰγλήεντα θεόγραφα χείλεα βάψας.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment	Devreesse (1937: 70) gives only the first and the last words.
Bibliography	Primary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 74 R. Devreesse, 1937, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 330-603 (vol. 2), Vatican City: 70
Number of verses	4
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Sien De Groot Contributor(s) Sien De Groot, 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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