Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2571
(formerly typ/664)

Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος,
ὡς ἐγγράφως ὥρισεν, ὡς ἔδειξέ μοι,
σπεύσας κατεσκεύασα τὴν πανοπλίαν.
ταῦτ’ οὖν μαθόντες, οἱ κριταὶ τοῦ βιβλίου,
στέργοιτε καὶ βάλοιτε ταῖς εὐφημίαις
τὸν ἀγχίνουν τε καὶ μέγαν βασιλέα.
τούτῳ γὰρ ἡ σύμπασα καὶ μόνῳ χάρις.
εἰ γὰρ προσήκει τὴν ἀλήθειαν λέγειν,
εὐμήχανον τὸ χρῆμα, πιπτέτω φθόνος.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Euthymios Zygabenos - PBW: Euthymios/120/
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Alexios I Komnenos (1057 - 15/08/1118) - PBW: Alexios/1/
Tag(s) Dedication
Comment In many manuscripts, this poem is immediately preceded by another epigram, inc. 'Πρόγραμμα βίβλου τῆσδε τῆς τῶν δογμάτων'. The two texts are not separated and were possibly meant to be read as one long poem.

The epigram was translated into Slavonic in several 15th- and 16th-century manuscripts (cf. Parpulov 2022: 341 and Tsibranska-Kostova 2017: 9).
Bibliography

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Number of verses 9
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Related type(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 901: "Euthym. Zigabenus, Praefatio in panopliam dogmaticam"
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