Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35246

	ἄμαχον ὅπλον τὴν φύσ(ιν) \| τοῖς ἐν φύσει,
	εἰδ(ὼς) \| βασιλ(εῦ), ἄφθιτον \| κράτος φέρεις· \|
	τὴν γὰρ ξύναιμον \| κάραν (καὶ) παμφιλτάτην \|
	ἐπανιοῦσ(αν) ἐκ δρα\|σμοῦ τε (καὶ) πλάν(ης), \|
	ἰδὼν χαριστήρια \| τῶ θ(ε)ῶ θύεις· \|
	τερφθεὶς ἀπείρ(ως), \| ἢ νίκαις ταῖς μυ\|ρίαις·
	ἡ φύσ(ις) \| ὄντ(ως) οἶδε φιλυπο\|στρόφ(ως),
	φέρ(ειν) ἐπ’ \| αὐτὴν γνησί(ως) καὶ \| συλλέγ(ειν)
	ἀπορρα\|γέντα τὰ μέλη \| συμφυΐας:-

Type(s)	[33727] Ἄμαχον ὅπλον τὴν φύσιν τοῖς ἐν φύσει (9 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th-14th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 16r
Palaeographical information	Written in the right margin by a hand working in a later stage with respect to the main text, in a darker ink and a smaller script. This hand is responsible for many of the marginalia and corrections ans additions to the main text (cf. Bértola (2021: 941)). The epigram is surrounded by a light red rectangular frame.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 32.31-33.60.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Isaakios Komnenos (1093 - 12th c.) - PBW: Isaakios/102/
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: 940, 982 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 102, 143-144
Number of verses	9
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Julián Bértola. 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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