Type 36350

Ὁ ψαλμὸς οἶδε τὸν θεῷ πεπεισμένον
βασιλέα κράτιστον, ᾧ θεῖον κράτος
αἰτεῖ δοθῆναι καὶ φυλάττεσθαι βλάβης.
Text source G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 229
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Niketas (12th c.) (chartophylax of Hagia Sophia < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, metropolites of Thessaloniki < Central Macedonia < Greece)
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Psalter
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Le psaume sait que le roi qui se fie en Dieu
est très puissant : à lui il demande que soit donné
le pouvoir divin et qu’il soit gardé de toute atteinte.
Language
French
Source(s)
G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 228
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 219r), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography
Number of verses 3
Occurrence(s) [36352] ὁ ψαλμ(ος) οἶδε τ(ὸν) θ(ε)ῷ πεπεισμ(έν)(ον) [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 48r)
(3 verses)
Related type(s)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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