Type 33641

Τέτρωρον, ἄναξ, ἡ τετρακτὺς τῶν τέκνων·
οἷς ἀναβαίνων καὶ θεοῦ θάρρει τρέχων,
πατεῖν προῃροῦ τὴν τετράκλιμον κτίσιν.
Title(s) Scholium in Nicetae Choniatae historiam (16.25-31)
Text source J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 975
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Ephraim of Ainos < Thrace (13th c. - 14th c.) - PLP: III.6408 - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PMBZ:
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Tag(s)
Translation(s) It is a quadriga, king, the group of your four children,
which you mounted and drove trusting in God
and on which you preferred to visit the four corners of creation.
Language
English
Source(s)
Comment The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 16.25-31.
The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 225v), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography
Number of verses 3
Occurrence(s)
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