Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35256

	ἄναξ· ὁ πραῢς· (καὶ) \| μέτριο(ς) τ(ὸν) τρόπον; \|
	βαρὺς δοκεῖς π(ως) \| τῷ στρατῷ \| τ(ῶν) αὐσόνων: \|
	πάντως ἀνιστῶν ἀρεϊκοὺς πρὸ(ς) τρόπους:
	τούτους, θυραυλεῖν· ἐκβιάζειν ἐντέχνως:-

Type(s)	[33729] Ἄναξ, ὁ πραῢς καὶ μέτριος τὸν τρόπον (4 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. 16v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink by the main scribe in the left and lower margins.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 33.67-83.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
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: 953, 982-983 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 144-145
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[35260] ἄναξ ὁ πραῢς (καὶ) \| μέτριος τὸν τρόπον [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 23) (4 verses) (4/4) [35257] ἄναξ ὁ πραῢς (καὶ) \| μέτριος τὸν τρόπον [1423-1450] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.] (f. 158v) (4 verses) (4/4) [35259] ἄναξ ὁ πραῢς, \| κ(αὶ) μέτριος τὸν \| τρόπον [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 16r) (4 verses) (4/4) [35255] ἄναξ ὁ πραῢς (καὶ) μέτριος τ(ὸν) τρόπ(ον) [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 16v) (4 verses) (4/4) [35258] ἄναξ ὁ πραῢς καὶ μέ\|τριος τὸν τρόπον [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 16r) (4 verses) (4/4)
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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