Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3454
(formerly typ/1585)

Πρώτου φάους ὢν δεύτερον θεῖον σέλας
τρίτου φωτὸς φώτιζε τὸν τριττὸν ζόφον
καὶ τὴν τετρακτὺν τῶν θυρῶν τὴν πεντάδα,
τὴν μὲν χαλίνου, τὴν δὲ σωφρονῶν δίδου.
Τῆς ἑξάδος γοῦν τὴν διπλῆν ἀταξιαν
μερῶν μελῶν τε μὴ δυσέβδομον θέσιν
πρὸς τάξιν ἰθύνειας ἐν τῷ σῷ σθένει.
Title(s) Εἰς τὸν ἄγγελον
Text source E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 426
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Image-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Niketas David Paphlagon (9th c. - 10th c.) - PMBZ: 27866: "Personenkennziffer: 25712"
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Translation(s) In angelum.
Primae lucis cum-sis secundum ex-deo jubar,
tertio lumine illumina triplices tenebras
et tetractyn portarum et pentada,
hanc frena, illam, utpote prudens, concede.
Hexadis igitur duplicem perturbationem,
partium membrorumque ne bis-septimam positionem
ad ordinem regas in tuo robore.
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: 426
Comment = Anth. Gr. Append. IV.143

The epigram also occurs in the 16th-century manuscript Madrid, BNE 4715 (a. 1552, f. 151r).
Bibliography

Primary

E. Miller, 1886, Bibliothèque royale de Madrid. Catalogue des manuscrits grecs (Supplément au catalogue d'Iriarte), Paris: 80

Secondary

C. Constantinides, N. Panagiotakis, E. Jeffreys, A. Angelou (eds.), 1996, Philellēn: Studies in Honour of Robert Browning, Venice: 112

Bibliography category to be determined
Number of verses 7
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Delphine Nachtergaele, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 653: "Nicetas David Paphlago*, In Michaelem arch. custodem animae"
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