Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35281

	ἥττων βασιλεῦ \| ὀψὲ κ(αὶ) ψύχους γί\|νη:
	ὃς διαπαντὰ \| αἰθριάζειν ἠγάπ(ας)· \|
	σχάζεις δὲ ταχὺ \| τὴν βύζαντος βαλ\|βίδα·
	κ(αὶ) πτηνὸς \| ὄρνης αἰετὸς κα\|θὰ μέγας·
	τὰς ἀρε\|τὰς πτέρυγας αὐ\|χῶν κ(αὶ) βλέπ(ων)·
	ἀσκαρ\|δαμύκτ(ως) τ(ὸν) νοητ(ὸν) \| φωσφόρον·
	φθάνεις \| διαπτοὺς τὴν, σύρ(ων) κ(αὶ) \| κιλίκ(ων)·
	κἀκεῖσε κα\|λῶς τὴν καλιὰν \| πηγνύεις·
	ὁδοῦ πά\|ρεργον, τοὺς πουσ\|γουσί(ας) πόλεις·
	ἃς \| θριγγὸς κ(αὶ) λιμνασ\|μ(ὸν) ζωννύει,
	ἐπανα\|σώσας τοῖς ὅροις \| 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	16th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 18r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right margin by the main scribe (hand 1, cf. Bértola (2021: 953)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 37.72-38.12. It is preceded by the note 'ση(μείωσαι):'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f42.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, 985 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 148-149
Number of verses	11
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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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