Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 33648

	Θρίαμβος ὦδε καὶ χαρᾶς μεστὴ πόλις·
	πάγγλωσσος ὕμνος καὶ μύρων πλείστη χύσις·
	καὶ χρυσοϋφῶν κατὰ γῆς στρῶσις πέπλων·
	καὶ χιονώδης ἱππικὴ συστοιχία,
	καλλίτριχος πίσσυρος ἐκφέρει δίφρον·
	εἰς ὃν βασιλεὺς ἀναβιβάζει μέγας
	τὴν τῆς θεομήτορος θείαν εἰκόνα·
	ἐφ’ ᾗ γεγηθὼς καὶ πεποιθὼς ἐξόχως,
	ὡς συστρατηγέτιδι, γράφει τὰς νίκας·
	ἧς καὶ προῆγε σταυρικὸν σκῆπτρον ἔχων,
	ποσὶ βαδίζων ξύν τε συγκλήτῳ πάσῃ·
	τοιοῦτος ὁ θρίαμβος, ἔνθεος, ξένος.

Title(s)	Scholium in Nicetae Choniatae historiam (18.78-19.2)
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: 976-977
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
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Konstantinoupolis Theotokos Triumph
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	Here is the triumph and the city full of joy, the hymn in all languages and the largest profusion of perfumes, and the paving of gold-woven veils over the earth, and the snowy set of horses, a group of four of beautiful manes brings forth the chariot, in which the great emperor puts the divine icon of the mother of God, in whom he rejoices and trusts above all and as to a fellow commander he ascribes his victories, and before whom he led the procession holding a cross-like scepter marching by foot together with the whole senate. Such is the triumph, divine, extraordinary. Language English Source(s) J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 977 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 136-137
Comment	The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 18.78-19.2. The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 226r), where it does not function as a book 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: 135-137, 181-185 H. Wolf, 1557, Nicetae Acominati Choniatae, magni logothetae secretorum, inspectoris & iudicis veli, praefecti sacri cubiculi LXXXVI annorum historia, videlicet ab anno restitutae salutis circiter MCXVII, in quo Zonaras desinit, usque ad annum MCCIII, Libris XIX descripta … ex trium codicum laboriosa inter sese collatione, Basel: 10
Number of verses	12
Occurrence(s)	[35164] θρίαμβος ὧδε, (καὶ) \| χαρᾶς μεστὴ πόλις [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 13) (12 verses) [35163] θρίαμβος ὦδε καὶ \| χαρᾶς μεστῆ πόλις [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 8v) (12 verses) [35160] θρίαμβος ὦδε (καὶ) χαρ(ᾶς) \| μεστὴ πόλις [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 11r) (12 verses) [35161] θρίαμβο(ς) ὦδε, (καὶ) \| χαρᾶς μεστὴ πόλ(ις) [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 10r) (12 verses) [35162] θρίαμβος ὦδε (καὶ) \| χαρᾶς μεστὴ πόλ(ις) [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 8v) (12 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julián Bértola Contributor(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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