Type 36353

Ἑωθινὰς ἤστραψεν αὐγὰς ἐν βίῳ
τὸ φῶς ὁ Χριστός, προσπαγεὶς ξύλῳ θέλων.
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)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Il a fait jaillir les rayons de l’aurore dans la vie,
lui la lumière, le Christ, fixé au bois de plein gré.
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 2
Occurrence(s) [36355] ἑωθιν(ὰς) ἤστραψεν αὐγὰς ἐν βίῳ [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 49r)
(2 verses)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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