Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3272
(formerly typ/1405)

	Πάντων ποθούντων προστρέχειν πρὸς τὴν πόλιν,
	ὅπου πάναγνοι τοῦ Θεοῦ λόγου πόδες
	ἔστησαν εἰς σύστασιν τῆς οἰκουμένης,
	ὤφθησαν οὗτοι τῷ σεβασμίῳ τόπῳ,
	σκεύη πονηρὰ δεισιδαίμονος πλάνης,
	ἐκεῖ τε πολλὰ λοιπὸν ἐξ ἀπιστίας,
	πράξαντες αἰσχρὰ δεινὰ δυσσεβοφρόνως,
	ἐκεῖθεν ἠλάσθησαν ὡς ἀποστάται.
	Πρὸς τὴν πόλιν δὲ τοῦ κράτους πεφευγότες
	οὐκ ἐξαφῆκαν τὰς ἀθέσμους μωρίας.
	Ὅθεν γραφέντες ὡς κακοῦργοι τὴν θέαν
	κατακρίνονται καὶ διώκονται πάλιν.

Text source	E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 342-343
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Heresy Polemic Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	Cunctis cupientibus accurrere ad urbem ubi castissimi dei Verbi pedes stetere ad constitutionem terrae, visi sunt isti venerando in loco, vasa prava superstitiosi erroris, illicque multis dehinc ex perfidia factis turpibus horrendis impia-mente, inde expulsi sunt ut desertores. Sed ad urbem imperii cum-effugerant, non remiserunt illicitas stultitias. Unde inscripto, ut facinorosi, vultu, condemnantur et pelluntur rursus. Language Latin Source(s) E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 342-343
Comment	= Anth. Gr. Append. III.308
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 280-281 S. Kadas, 2000, Τὰ σημειώματα τῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Ἱερᾱς Μεγίστης Μονῆς Βατοπαιδίου, Mount Athos: 88 A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, 1963, Ἀνάλεκτα Ἱεροσολυμιτικῆς Σταχυολογίας (vol. 4), Brussels: 213 C. Sode, 2001, Jerusalem-Konstantinopel-Rom. Die Viten des Michael Synkellos und der Brüder Theodoros und Theophanes Graptoi, Stuttgart: 128 C. Van de Vorst 1906, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften der Bibliotheca Rossiana, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 23, 492-508: 506-507
Number of verses	12
Occurrence(s)	[24365] πάντ(ων) ποθοῦντ(ων) προστρέχ(ειν) πρὸ(ς) τ(ὴν) πόλ(ιν) [12th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 498 (olim 427) [12th c.] (f. 190v) (8 verses) [19407] πάντ(ων) ποθούντ(ων) προστρέχ(ειν) πρὸς τ(ὴν) πόλιν [13th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 55, Cod. 17 [13th c.] (f. 60r) (10 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Juan Bautista Juan López The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 596: "Christodulus, Iambi frontibus Theodori et Theophanis Graptorum a Theophilo imp. inscripti (BHG 1746a)"
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