Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Poet

Ephraim of Ainos < Thrace (13th c. - 14th c.) - PLP: III.6408

• Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
• Noah

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• Scholium

• Here is the ark, the flood of waters,
  other crows, Noah and the variety of species.
  And the old prophecy is being fulfilled:
  the royal camp is the new ark;
  the stream of most furious, immeasurable waters,
  the rain, the accumulation of water is the inundation of the camp;
  and the leader Noah is the king of citizens,
  who, falling in the middle of the mountains
  so-called “crows”, stopped a long course;
  and in turn the variety of the immense army
  brings the deceased, a model of military command,
  back to the imperial city.

  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: 989

• Here is the ark, the flood of waters,
  other crows, Noah and the variety of species.
  And the old prophecy is being fulfilled:
  the royal camp is the new ark;
  the stream of most furious, immeasurable waters,
  the rain, the accumulation of water is the inundation of the camp;
  and the leader Noah is the king of citizens,
  who, falling in the middle of the mountains,
  the so-called “crows”, stopped a long course;
  and in turn the variety of the immense army
  brings the deceased, a model of military command,
  back to the imperial city.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 154

• [35306] κιβωτὸς ὧδε κατα|κλυσμὸς ὑδάτων [06/03/1555]
  DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 29)
  (12 verses)
• [35305] κιβωτὸ(ς) | ὦδε κατακλυσ|μὸς ὑδάτων [16th c.]
  PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 20r-20v)
  (12 verses)
• [35302] κιβωτὸς ὦδε κατακλυσμὸ(ς) ὑδάτ(ων) [13th-14th c.]
  VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 20r)
  (12 verses)
• [35303] κιβωτὸ(ς) ὦδε κατα|κλυσμὸ(ς) ὑδάτ(ων) [1301-1350]
  VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 20v)
  (12 verses)
• [35304] κιβωτὸς ὦδε κατακλυσμὸς ὑδάτ(ων) [15th c.]
  VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 20v)
  (12 verses)

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