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Occurrence 35244

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	⁘ δὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆ θεουπόλει πόλει·
	κ(αὶ) δὶς νικητὴς εἰσιὼν κλέος νέμει·
	κ(αὶ) δὶς δὶς οὗτος αὖθι τῆ κωνσταντίνου·
	κ(αὶ) μυριάκις μυριοστεφηφόρος·
	ὡς τῶν καλῶν κάλλιστος αὐσόν(ων) ἄναξ·
	ἐφίσταται θρίαμβον ἀρτύυν πάλιν:-

Type(s)	[33672] Δὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς τῇ Θεουπόλει πόλει (6 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. 14v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the lower margin by the main scribe (hand 1, cf. Bértola (2021: 953)). Written in two columns, to be read horizontally. 4 μυριάκις ] μυριάκης ante correctionem 5 τῶν ] τὸ ante correctionem
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 31.16-21.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Konstantinoupolis Triumph
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f35.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, 981 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 143
Number of verses	6
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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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