Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35278

	ἥττων βασιλεῦ ὀψὲ (καὶ) ψύχ(ους) γίνῃ·
	ὃς διαπαντὸς αἰθριάζ(ειν) ἠγάπας·
	σχάζεις δὲ ταχὺ τὴν βύζαντος βαλβίδα·
	(καὶ) πτηνὸς ὄρνις \| αἰετὸς καθὰ μέγας,
	τ(ὰς) ἀρετ(ὰς) πτέρυγ(ας) αὐχῶν (καὶ) βλέπων,
	ἀσκαρδαμύκτ(ως) τ(ὸν) νοητ(ὸν) φωσφόρον·,
	φθάνεις διαπτὰς τὴν σύρ(ων) \| (καὶ) κιλίκ(ων)·
	κἀκεῖσε \| καλ(ῶς) τὴν καλιὰν \| πηγνύεις·
	ὁδοῦ \| πάρεργον τ(ὰς) πουσ\|γουσί(ας) πόλεις,
	ἃς \| θριγγὸς ὑγρὸ(ς) (καὶ) \| λιμνασμὸς \| ζωννύει,
	ἐπα\|νασώσας τοῖς ὅρ(οις) \| τῶν αὐσόνων:-

Type(s)	[33752] Ἥττων, βασιλεῦ, ὀψὲ καὶ ψύχους γίνῃ (11 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. 18r
Palaeographical information	Written in the upper and right margins 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 37.72-38.12.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
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, 985 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 102, 148-149
Number of verses	11
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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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