Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 33373

	αὐτοῦ δροσίλλης ἀλλὰ καὶ χαρικλέους
	φυγὴ· πλάνη, κλύδωνες, ἁρπαγαὶ, βίαφ
	λησταὶ· φυλακαὶ· πειρᾶται, λιμαγχόναι·
	μέλαθρα δεινὰ καὶ κατεζοφωμένα
	Ἐν ἡλίω λάμποντα μετὰ τοῦ σκότους· \|\|
	Κλοιὸς σιδηροῦς ἐσφυρηλατησμένος·
	Χωρισμὸς οἰκτρὸς δυστυχὴς ἑκατέρων·
	Πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ νυμφῶνες ὀψὲ καὶ γάμοι

Type(s)	[33371] Αὐτοῦ Δροσίλλης ἀλλὰ καὶ Χαρικλέους (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1496-1505
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2908 [1496-1505]
Place in Manuscript	f. Ir-Iv
Person(s)	Scribe Georgios Hermonymos of Sparta < Laconia < Peloponnesos < Greece (1451-1500) - RGK: I.61, II.80, III.102 - VGH: 74.C - PLP: III.6125
Palaeographical information	2 supra ἁρπαγαὶ "rapine" legitur 5 λάμποντα ] λάμποντι corr. supra lineam
Contextual information	The epigram precedes Niketas Eugeneianos' 'Drosilla and Charikles'. The verses are immediately followed by the words "τῶν κατὰ δροσίλλης καὶ χαρικλέα βία".
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Drosilla and Charikles
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b107233619/f8.item https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b107233619/f9.item
Bibliography	Primary F. Conca, A. Giusti, 1990, Nicetas Eugenianus. De Drosillae et Chariclis amoribus, Amsterdam: 30 Secondary E. Jeffreys, 2012, Four Byzantine Novels, Liverpool: 351
Number of verses	8
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(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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