Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35250

	ἄμαχον ὅπλον τ(ὴν) \| φύσιν τοῖς ἐν φύσει· \|
	εἰδὼς βασιλεῦ, \| ἄφθιτον κράτος \| φέρεις·
	τὴν γὰρ \| ξύναιμον κάραν \| κ(αὶ) παμφιλτά\|την·
	ἐπανιοῦ\|σαν ἐκ δρασμοῦ \| τε κ(αὶ) πλάνης· \|
	ἰδὼν χαριστή\|ρια τῷ θ(ε)ῷ θύεις: \|
	τερφθεὶς ἀπεί\|ρως ἢ νίκαις ταῖς \| μυρίοις:-

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	16th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 15v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the left margin by the main scribe (hand 1, cf. Bértola (2021: 953)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 32.31-33.60. The second part of this epigram (vv. 7-9), apparently considered to be a separate poem, was copied in the upper margin before these first six verses.
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://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f37.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, 954, 982 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 143-144 Secondary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 113
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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