Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35297

	τὸ τραῦμα βραχὺ δακ\|τύλου δέρμα ξέσαν· \|
	ὁ δ’ ὄγκο(ς) οὕτω τ(ῆς) χερὸ(ς) \| μέτρου πέρα·
	βα\|ρύταται δ’ αὖ, αἱ περι\|ωδυνίαι:
	ὡς ἀπο\|καμ(εῖν) (καὶ) μαχαόνων \| ἄκο(ς)·
	καί σοι βασιλεῦ \| τέρμα μηνύει βίου; \|
	φρόντισον οὐκοῦν \| τοῦ, κράτ(ους) διαδόχου:-

Type(s)	[33758] Τὸ τραῦμα βραχὺ δακτύλου δέρμα ξέσαν (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1301-1350
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 20r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink by the main scribe in the right margin.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 40.71-41.7.
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_7071358
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: 943, 988 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 152-153
Number of verses	6
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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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