Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 25462
(formerly occ/9490)

	ἐστυφελίχθην ὦ χαρίκλεια κόρη,
	ψυχ(ὴν) λογισμ(ὸν) κ(αὶ) φρέν(ας) κ(αὶ) καρδίαν· \|
	ἔγνων σε κ(αὶ) ποθοῦσ(αν) ἐξ εὐστοργί(ας)·
	ὡς ὑπερηγάσθην σε κ(αὶ) κατεπλάγην· \|
	τοῦ σώφρονος νοῦ τῶν καλ(ῶν) βουλευμάτ(ων)·
	τ(ῆς) καρτερί(ας) πρ(ὸς) κακ(ῶν) ἀμετρίαν· \|
	τοῦ τληπαθοῦς ἔρωτος εἰς θεαγένην·
	ὡς ὀλβία σὺ ταῖς ἐρώσαις παρθένοις· \|
	ἐρωμέναις δὲ πάλιν ὀλβιωτέρα·
	κἂν δυστυχὴς ὁ πρῶτος ἐγνώσθη βίος, \|
	ἀλλ' εὐτυχὴς ὁ λοῖσθος εὑρέθη γάμος·
	πεῖραν λαβοῦσα ληστρικ(ῆς) κακουργί(ας)· \|
	ἄλλων τὲ δειν(ῶν) ἐν μεθέξει μυρί(ων)·
	μακρ(ὸν) πλάνητον ἐκμετρήσασα χρόνον· \|
	τέλος συνήφθης ὢ καλ(ῶν) νυμφευμάτ(ων)·
	τρισευτυχεῖ σῶ νυμφίω \| θεαγένει : +

Type(s)	[4678] Ἐστυφελίχθην, ὦ Χαρίκλεια κόρη (16 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1451-1500
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2905 [1451-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 154v
Person(s)	Scribe Andreas Eparchos (1451-1500) - PLP: III.6087 (iatros)
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns to be read horizontally. The first letter of the poem is written in a different color.
Contextual information	The epigram is found after the end of the novel of Heliodorus, a monostich ('εἴληφε τέρμα βίβλος ἡλιοδώρου') and the subscription of the scribe.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Heliodoros of Emesa < Syria (4th c.) Marriage Theagenes and Charikleia
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10722450g/f162
Bibliography	Primary N. Bianchi 2010, Lettori di Eliodoro a Bizanzio: Il carme per Cariclea, Greaco-Latina Brunensia, 15(2), 13-24: 14, 16-17 A. Colonna, 1938, Heliodori Aethiopica, Roma: 371-372 Secondary N. Bianchi 2011, «Non c’è differenza tra l’amore e l’ebbreza» ovvero Eliodoro nella biblioteca di Niceta Eugeniano, in N. Bianchi (ed.), Romanzi greci ritrovati. Tradizione e riscoperta dalla tarda antichità al Cinquecento, Bari, 47-65: 51, 60 A. Colonna 1992, Un epigramma di Teodoro Prodromo sulla «Cariclea» di Eliodoro, in S. Felici (ed.), «Humanitas» classica e «Sapientia» cristiana. Scritti offerti a R. Iacoangeli, Roma, 61-63: 61
Number of verses	16
Related occurrence(s)	[21246] ἐστυφελίχθην, ὦ χαρικλεία κόρη [1401-1450] MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 157 [1401-1450] (f. 167v) (16 verses) (16/16)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julián Bértola Transcriber(s) Julián Bértola Contributor(s) 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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Last modified: 2020-10-23.

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