Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35158

	ἐν ὑγροχέρσῳ \| παγκρατεστά\|τῃ μάχῃ·
	ἄναξ \| τροποῦται παίο\|νας κ(ατα)κράτος· \|
	κ(αὶ) χρᾶσσθαι εἷλε, \| ξύν τε φραγγοχωρίῳ:-

Type(s)	[33645] Ἐν ὑγροχέρσῳ παγκρατεστάτῃ μάχῃ (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	16th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 8r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right margin by the main scribe (hand 1, cf. Bértola (2021: 953)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 17.50-18.61. It is preceded by the note 'ση(μείωσαι):'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f22.item
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 953, 976 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 135
Number of verses	3
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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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