Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35290

	ἁρματηλάτα βασιλεῦ \| φαεσφόρε·
	ἤδη δρόμος \| σὸς πρὸς δύσιν ἀποβλέπει· \|
	τοῦ γὰρ τετρώρου τὴν καλ(ὴν) \| ξυνωρίδα·
	σῶν πρωτογεν(ῶν) \| πορφυρανθῶν υἱέων, \|
	ἅδου θερίστρα τοῦ κράτους \| παρηόρου,
	ἔκοψεν ἀπήγαγε \| πρὸς σκότου πύλας·
	(καὶ) θανάτου \| κύλινδρος ἄφυκτος πάλιν, \|
	ὡς ἐντρόχι(ον) τῶ τροχηλεύ\|ματί σου·
	πευκεδαν(ὸν) ἄτρακτ(ον) \| ἐκ σῆς φαρέτρας,
	προῆκ(εν) \| ἰόχριστον ὡς βιοφθόρον· \|
	(καὶ) κονδύλους σοὺς, τὸ φθορᾶς \| ξέει ξίφος·
	ἀρχῆς δι’ ὧν \| ἠνία καλ(ῶς) ἰθύνεις·
	τὸν ἀρχι(κ)(ὸν) \| μύωπα δι’ ὧν κατέχεις,
	τ(ὸν) \| κοκκοβαφῆ σὺ κάλαμον \| αὐτάναξ·
	κ(αὶ) βασιλικ(ῶς) \| τοῖς ὑπηκόοις νέμεις, \|
	ἐν παντὶ καιρῶ δωρεὰς \| τὰς ἀφθόνους·
	ὄντως \| ἐπεστράτευσαν ἐν σοὶ τριστάται, \|
	θάνατος. ἅδης, (καὶ) φθορὰ \| κακ(ὸν) τρίτον·
	καὶ σου \| κατεκράτησαν, αἲ αἲ \| ζημίας +

Type(s)	[33754] Ἁρματηλάτα βασιλεῦ φαεσφόρε (19 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	06/03/1555
Manuscript	DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555]
Place in Manuscript	p. 27
Person(s)	Scribe Alexandros (16th c.) - VGH: 12.I (hierodiakonos, megas chartophylax of Hagia Sophia < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey)
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right margin. 5 θερίστρα ] θέριστρα ante corr.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 38.13–23. It is preceded by a signe-de-renvoi, which links these verses to the relevant passage in the main text.
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/
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: 955, 986-987 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 114, 149-150 H. Wolf, 1557, Nicetae Acominati Choniatae, magni logothetae secretorum, inspectoris & iudicis veli, praefecti sacri cubiculi LXXXVI annorum historia, videlicet ab anno restitutae salutis circiter MCXVII, in quo Zonaras desinit, usque ad annum MCCIII, Libris XIX descripta … ex trium codicum laboriosa inter sese collatione, Basel: 20
Number of verses	19
Related occurrence(s)	[35289] ἁρματηλάτα \| βασιλεῦ φαεσ\|φόρε [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 18v) (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	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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