Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26365
(formerly occ/10420)

Καῖσαρ ἐμὲ ξυνὰ γ(ὰρ) ἀγαθὰ σφετερίζομαι αὐτ(ός).
καῖσαρ ἄριστε μέγιστε τριφέρτ(α)τε πάντεσι καῖ(...)
καῖσαρ ἐπιχθονίοισι μέγα κλέο(ς) ὄλβιε καῖσαρ·
καῖσαρ ἀγανόφρον σοφὲ καῖσαρ. καῖσαρ ἀ(...)
σὸ(ς) θεράπ(ων) θεόδωρο(ς) ἐκείνου π(αῖς) προδρόμ(ου)
χρώμ(α)τ(α) ταῦτα ἑαῖς ὑπο χείρεσι μάρψ(ας)
εἰκόνα τὴν δοσικλῆο(ς) ἐγράψατο (καί) τε ῥοδάνθ(ης).
(καὶ) σὲ θεασσάμ(ενον) κριν(εῖν) ποτιλίσσετ(αι) αὐτ(όν).
μὴ γοῦν πραξιτέλ(ους) μεγατεχνέο(ς) ἠ(δέ) τ’ ἀπελλοῦ
καλλιγράφ(οις) πινάκεσσι (καὶ) ἱμερόεσσ(ιν) ἰδέσ(...)
τἀμὰ ξυμπαράβαλε νεώτ(α)τ(α) πρωτογενέθλ(οις).
ἢ γ(ὰρ) ἐν κενεοῖσι πόνου ἂν έτλημ(εν) ἀνάγκην
ζωγράφοις (δὲ) νέοισ(ιν) ἐμ(ὴν) ἐπισύγκρινε τέχν(ην).
(καὶ) τάχα ἂν οὐ πολῶ χερί(ων) ἐπὶ τοῖσδε φαανθ(...)
Type(s) [7043] Καῖσαρ ἐμέ, ξυνὰ γὰρ ἀγαθὰ σφετερίζομαι αὐτός (14 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 1251-1325
Manuscript HEIDELBERG - Universitätsbibliothek - Palat. gr. 43 [1251-1325]
Place in Manuscript f. 38v
Palaeographical information The verses are written in brown ink in two columns and are to be read horizontally.
Because the right edge of this folio is damaged, some verse endings are not legible.
Contextual information This epigram is the first in a series of three.
The epigrams precede the novel 'Rhodanthe and Dosikles' by Theodoros Prodromos.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)
Subject(s)
Image source(s) https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpgraec43/0090/image
Bibliography

Primary

P. Agapitos 2000, Poets and painters: Theodoros Prodromos' dedicatory verses of his novel to an anonymous Caesar, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 50, 173-185: 175

Secondary

E. Jeffreys, 2012, Four Byzantine Novels, Liverpool: 7-9
Number of verses 14
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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