Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 36573

	Ἐπιστρέφουσιν ἐκ μακρᾶς πονηρίας
	ἐλπὶς βεβαία Χριστός ἐστι καὶ σκέπη.

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: 237
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)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Psalter
Tag(s)	Division of the book Reference to content of the book Title
Translation(s)	A ceux qui se détournent du mal qu’ils font depuis longtemps, le Christ est une espérance et un abri solide. 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: 236
Comment	On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223). The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 220r), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography	Secondary G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 65 (n. 4)
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[36575] ἐπιστρέφουσι(ν) εκ μακρ(ας) πονηρί(ας) [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 121r) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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