Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2385
(formerly typ/462)

Σύμβολα θεσπεσίων ἱερῶν ἑνοειδέϊ μύθῳ
εἰς ἑνικὴν ἀνέλυσας ἑνὸς φάεος μίαν αἴγλην.
Title(s) Ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὸν μακάριον Διονύσιον εἰς τὸ περὶ τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἱεραρχίας
Text source S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 65
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s)
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
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Translation(s)
Comment The epigram also occurs in the 17th-century manuscript Vat. Urb. gr. 5 (f. 141r).

Both John Scottus Eriugena (9th c.) and John Sarrazin (12th c.) made a Latin translation of this book epigram; Robert Grosseteste (12th-13th c.) transliterated the epigram in Latin characters (cf. De Groot (2021: 343, 356, 362)). These translations and the transliteration accompany their respective translations of the Corpus Dionysiacum in several manuscripts.
This epigram was translated into Slavonic in by Isaiah, former abbot of the Panteleemon Monastery of Athos (cf. Parpulov 2022: 339, n. 14).
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Number of verses 2
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Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Eleonora Lauro

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 695: "In s. Dionysium (de eccles. hierarchia)"
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