Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35247

	ἄμαχον ὅπλον\| τὴν φύσιν τῖς \| ἐν φύσει;
	εἰδ(ὼς) \| βασιλεῦ, \| ἄφθιτον κράτο(ς) φέρεις·
	τὴν γ(ὰρ) ξύναιμον κάραν (καὶ) παμφιλτάτην;
	ἐπανιοῦσαν ἐκ δρασμοῦ τε \| (καὶ) πλάνης;
	ἰδὼν χαριστήρια τῶ θ(ε)ω θύεις:
	τερφθεὶς ἀπείρ(ως) ἢ νίκαις ταῖς μυρίοις \|\|
	ἡ φύσ(ις), ὄντως οἶδε φιλυποστρόφως;
	φέρειν ἐπ’ αὐτὴν γνησίως (καὶ) συλλέγειν, \|
	ἀπορραγέντα 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	1301-1350
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 16r-16v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink by the main scribe in the lower margin of f. 16r and the upper margin of f. 16v.
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/
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, 944, 982 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 143-144
Number of verses	9
Related occurrence(s)	[35252] ἄμαχον ὅπλον τὴν φύσιν \| τοῖς ἐν φύσει [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 23) (6 verses) (6/9) [35253] ἡ φύσις ὄντως οἶδε \| φιλυποστρόφως [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 23) (3 verses) (3/9) [35250] ἄμαχον ὅπλον τ(ὴν) \| φύσιν τοῖς ἐν φύσει [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 15v) (6 verses) (6/9) [35251] ἡ φύσις ὄντως οἶδε φιλυποστρόφως [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 15v) (3 verses) (3/9) [35246] ἄμαχον ὅπλον τὴν φύσ(ιν) \| τοῖς ἐν φύσει [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 16r) (9 verses) (9/9) [35248] ἄμαχον ὅπλ(ον) τὴν φύσιν \| τοῖς ἐν φύσει [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 15v) (9 verses) (9/9) display 3 more occurrences (6 in total) hide 3 occurrences (6 in total)
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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