Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35280

	ἥττων βασιλεῦ ὀψὲ (καὶ) ψύχ(ους) γίνῃ·
	ὃς διὰ παντὸς αἰθριάζειν ἠγάπ(ας)·
	σχάζεις δὲ ταχὺ \| τὴν βύζαντος βαλβίδα·
	καὶ πτηνὸς ὄρνις ἀετὸς καθὰ μέγ(ας),
	τὰς ἀρετὰς πτέρυγ(ας) \| αὐχῶν (καὶ) βλέπων·
	ἀσκαρδαμύκτως τ(ὸν) νοητ(ὸν) φωσφόρ(ον),
	φθάνεις διαπτὰς \| τ(ὴν) σύρων (καὶ) κιλίκων·
	κἀκεῖσε καλῶς τ(ὴν) καλιὰν πηγνύεις·
	ὁδοῦ πάρεργον τὰς \| πουσγουσί(ας) πόλεις,
	ἃς θριγγὸς ὑγρὸς καὶ λιμνασμὸς ζωννύει·
	ἐπανασώσ(ας) \| τοῖς ὄροις 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	15th c.
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 18r
Palaeographical information	Written in the lower margin, "by the most recent third hand (15th century)" (Bértola (2021: 950-951)).
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/
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7205879
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: 950, 985 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 109, 148-149
Number of verses	11
Related occurrence(s)	[35282] ἥττων βασιλεῦ ὀψὲ \| (καὶ) ψύχους γίνη [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 26) (11 verses) (11/11) [35281] ἥττων βασιλεῦ \| ὀψὲ κ(αὶ) ψύχους γί\|νη [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 18r) (11 verses) (11/11) [35278] ἥττων βασιλεῦ ὀψὲ (καὶ) ψύχ(ους) γίνῃ [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 18r) (11 verses) (11/11) [35279] ἥττων βασιλεῦ \| ὀψὲ (καὶ) ψύχους γίνῃ [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 18r) (11 verses) (11/11)
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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