Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35207

	ὁ βάρβαρο(ς) στό\|μαλγο(ς) ἀρμενοκίλιξ, \|
	κεν(ῶς) προκαλ(ῆ) κατ’ ἐπι\|λέγδην μάχην:
	στέ\|ξεις γὰρ οὔκουν, τὸ \| βραχὺ μέγα ξίφος, \|
	εὐστράτιο(ς), ὃ χειρὶ πα\|χείᾳ φέρει;
	ὁπλι\|τοπάλ(ας) μακεδὼν σακ\|κεσφόρο(ς):-

Type(s)	[33659] Ὁ βάρβαρος στόμαλγος Ἀρμενοκίλιξ (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1301-1350
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 12r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink by the main scribe in the right margin.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 22.76-24.29. It is preceded by the note 'ση(μείωσαι)'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7071358
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: 943, 978 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 138-139
Number of verses	5
Related occurrence(s)	[35210] ὁ βάρβαρος στόμαλγος \| ἀρμενοκίλιξ [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 16) (5 verses) (5/5) [35209] ὁ βάρβαρος - \|στόμαλχος ἁρ\|μενοκίλιξ [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 10v) (5 verses) (5/5) [35206] ὁ βάρβαρος στόμαλγος \| ἀρμενοκίλιξ [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 29v) (5 verses) (5/5) [35208] ὁ βάρβαρος στόμαλγος \| ἀρμενοκίλιξ [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 10v) (5 verses) (5/5)
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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