Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36004

	στίχ(οι)

	γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς \| οὗτος εἰς φιλο\|χρύσους·
	ἂν \| τ(οὺς) πόδ(ας) ἔθλιψ(εν) \| (ὡς) ποδῶν βάρος, \|
	τὰς καρδίας \| ηὔφρανεν, (ὡς) \| χρυσοῦς πλέον· \|
	ὢ τίς κομίσει \| ταύτας αὐτ(οῖς) \| τὰς πέδας· \|
	(καὶ) πάντ(ας) ἔνθεν \| ἀποφήνη δεσ\|μίους·
	τοὺς \| χρυσὸν ἐμπνέ\|οντας \| πλέον:·
	οὐδεὶς \| γὰρ αὐτ(ῶν) ἐξέ\|φυγε τ(ὴν) δέσ(ιν)· \|
	οὐδ’ αὖ μίαν \| ἔστερξεν εἰλη\|φὼς πέδην· \|
	ὁμοῦ δὲ (...)εῖρ(ας) \| (καὶ) τράχηλον (καὶ) πόδ(ας)·
	(καὶ) σωματικ(ὴν) σύμπασ(αν) διαρτίαν,
	ταῖς χρυσίναις \| ἔσπευσε, λυθῆναι πέδαις +

Type(s)	[35887] Γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς οὗτος εἰς φιλοχρύσους (11 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 94r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right and lower margins by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.23.4. 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
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 73-74 J. Bértola 2023, A First Critical Edition of the Cycle of Epigrams on Herodotus in the Margins of Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 70.6 and Some of Its Apographa, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 72, 63-96: 89-90
Number of verses	11
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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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