Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35289

	ἁρματηλάτα \| βασιλεῦ φαεσ\|φόρε·
	ἤδη δρό\|μος σὸς πρὸς δύ\|σιν ἀποβλέπει· \|
	τοῦ γὰρ τετρώρου \| τὴν καλὴν ξυνω\|ρίδα·
	σῶν πρωτο\|γεννῶν πορφυραν\|θῶν υἱέων·
	ἅδου \| θερίστρα τοῦ κρά\|τους παρηόρου
	ἔκο\|ψεν ἀπήγαγεν πρὸς \| σκότους πύλας: \|
	κ(αὶ) θανάτου κύλιν\|δρος ἄφυκτος πά\|λιν:
	ὡς ἐντρόχι\|ον τῶ τροχηλεύμα\|τί σου·
	πακεδαν(ὸν) \| ἄτρακτον κ(αὶ) σῆς \| φαρέτρας,
	προῆ\|κεν ἰόχριστον ὡς \| βιοφθόρον·
	κ(αὶ) κον\|δύλους σοὺς τὸ, \| φθορᾶς ξέει ξί\|φος·
	ἀρχῆς δι’ ὧ\|ν ηνία καλῶς ἰ\|θύνεις·
	τ(ὸν) ἀρχι\|κὸν μύωπα \| δι’ ὧν κατέχεις, \|
	τ(ὸν) κοκκοβαφῆ σὺ κάλαμον αὐτάναξ·
	κ(αὶ) βασιλικῶς τοῖς ὑπηκόοις \| νέμεις,
	ἐν παντὶ καιρῶ δωρεὰς τὰς ἀφθόνους·
	ὄντως ἐπεστράτευσαν ἐν σοὶ τρι\|στάται·
	θάνατος· ᾅδης· κ(αὶ) φθορὰ· κακὸν τρίτον·
	κ(αὶ) σοῦ κατεκράτησαν αἲ αἲ ζημί(ας):-

Type(s)	[33754] Ἁρματηλάτα βασιλεῦ φαεσφόρε (19 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. 18v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the left and lower margins by the main scribe (hand 1, cf. Bértola (2021: 953)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 38.13–23.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Alexios Komnenos (1106 - 1142) - PBW: Alexios/103/ Andronikos Komnenos (1108 - 1142) - PBW: Andronikos/109/ Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f43.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, 986-987 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 149-150
Number of verses	19
Related occurrence(s)	[35290] ἁρματηλάτα βασιλεῦ \| φαεσφόρε [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 27) (19 verses) (19/19) [35285] ἁρματηλάτα βασιλεῦ \| φαεσφόρε [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 18v) (19 verses) (19/19)
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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