Occurrence 25858
(formerly occ/9893)

+ πάλαι βασιλεὺς τῶν σοφῶν συνθεὶς λόγους,
τῶν τῆς παλαιᾶς καὶ νέας μυστηπόλων,
ἤδρασεν ἐστήριξε τοὺς κλονουμένους,
ἐπεστόμισε τὰ στίφη τῶν φληνάφων
τῶν ὡς ἀληθῶς ὑποφητῶν βελίαρ,
λόγους προτείνων ἐκ θεογράφων βίβλων
(καὶ) συμπεραίνων ἀσφάλειαν δογμάτων·
(καὶ) νῦν βασιλεὺς εὐσεβὴς οὐ συγγράφων.
μᾶλλον δὲ συγγράφουσιν οὐ κεχρημένος·
ἀλλ' αὐτὸς αὐχῶν καρδίας ἐν πυξίδι
λόγους ἀκριβεῖς τῶν σοφῶν θεηγόρων,
ὡς καὶ πᾶν ἄλλο τῶν ἀγαθῶν πλουσίως.
ψυχῆς τε πλαξὶ· καὶ φρενῶν κεύθει βάθει·
καὶ τοῖς συνοῦσι καθεκάστην ἐκφέρων·
καὶ διὰ τούτων τοὺς μακρὰν τοὺς ἐγγύθεν,
ὀρθὰ φρονεῖν τε μυσταγωγῶν· καὶ λέγειν,
ἓν χεῖλος ἀνέδειξε τοὺς ἑνὸς φύλου·
θεὶς δόγμα πᾶν ἔκφυλον ὡς πορρωτάτω·
(καὶ) δόξαν εἰσφρήσασαν ἐξ ἀλλοθρόων·
ἐκεῖνον ὅστις ἡ γραφὴ δείκνυσί σοι·
(καὶ) τοῦτον ὅστις, ἐξ ἐμῶν λόγων μάθε·
παλαιολόγος ἀνδρόνικος αὐτάναξ·
οὗ γνῶσις ἀσύγκριτος εἰς τὰ πρακτέα· ||
οὗ γλῶττα θαυμάσιος εἰς τὰ λεκτέα,
ὃν ἀγλαΐζει τῶν τρόπων ἡ χρηστότης,
ὃν ἀρεταὶ κοσμοῦσιν ὑπὲρ τὸ στέφος,
ὅς, συνελὼν εἴποιμι, καλῶν ἑστία,
καὶ τῶν χαρίτων εὐπρεπὴς συνοικία.
ἀλλὰ φυλάττοι τοῦτον εἰς μακροὺς χρόνους
ὁ τῶν ἀγαθῶν παροχεύς τε (καὶ) φύλαξ,
(καὶ) συμφυλάττοι τὸν πεφιλμένον γόνον,
τὸν μιχαὴλ, ἔρεισμα τῆς σκηπτουχίας,
τὴν τῆς ἁπάσης καλλονὴν κραταρχίας.
τὴν λαμπρὰν ὄντως ἐλπίδα ῥωμαΐδος,
ὃς δόξα π(ατ)ρὸς σολομῶν ὡς που γράφει,
οὗ δόξα π(ατ)ὴρ ἀγαθὸν πλουτῶν ἅπαν.
ἐπὰν μεταστήση δε τούσδε τοῦ βίου,
τὴν βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν δώη λάχος·
(καὶ) συναριθμήσειεν ἁγίων στίφει +
Type(s) [6907] Πάλαι βασιλεὺς τῶν σοφῶν συνθεὶς λόγους (39 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th c.
Manuscript MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 387 (Vlad. 224) [1151-1200]
Place in Manuscript f. 4v-5r
Palaeographical information The manuscript dates to the second half of the 12th century, but this folio was written by a 14th-century hand, seemingly in imitation of the main scribe, Georgios Pamphilos. See Vladimir (1894: 280, n.4) observing that the inscription starting on fol. 4v is written by a different hand in comparison to the preceding folia.

The first lines of f. 5r (i.e. vv. 25-27) are not clearly readable.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Subject(s)
Bibliography
Number of verses 39
Acknowledgements Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Georgi Parpulov.

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