Type 35607
| Εἰς νόον αἰγλήεντα θεόγραφα χείλεα βάψας, | |
| κάλλεα ποικίλλεις ἠδ᾿ ἱερωνυμίην | |
| καὶ μετὰ πότμον ζωοσόφοισι λόγοισιν ὄντως, | |
| ὕμνους δὴ κελαδῶν τοὺς θεοφάντορας ἦ. |
| Title(s) | Zacharias, In s. Dionysium (de div. nominibus) |
| Text source | S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 109 |
| Text status | Text completely known |
| Editorial status | Not a critical text |
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| Metre(s) | Elegiacs |
| Subject(s) | Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.) |
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| Translation(s) |
After having dipped your lips that write God in the radiant mind, You embellish the beautiful things and the holy name even after your death, truly, with words of living wisdom, By singing hymns that, indeed, reveal God. |
| Comment | De Groot (2021: 109): "The first verse of this epigram is identical to the common type." (i.e. Type 1931) "After that, the author attempts to elaborate the second and third verse into three verses, by adding and changing some words of the original type. The additional words are mainly particles that add to the bulk of the text but do not substantially contribute to the meaning (...). This begs the question: why did Zacharias find it necessary to adapt the epigram? A possible explanation is that he tried to make elegiac distichs out of the dactylic hexameters. Indeed, v. 2 and 4 scan as dactylic pentameters after his adaptations." |
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| Number of verses | 4 |
| Occurrence(s) |
[26364] εἰς νόον αἰγλήεντα, θεόγραφα χείλεα βάψας
[14th-15th c.]
MODENA - Biblioteca Estense Universitaria α. T. 9. 08 (Puntoni 45; olim II B 8) [14th-15th c.] (f. 34r) (4 verses) |
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| Permalink | https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/35607 |
Last modified: 2024-09-23.
