Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 36612

Λαὸν ἑὸν κέλεται λόγος εὐνομίῃ συνέσει τε
εὐφραδέως νόμον ἐσθλὸν ἐνὶ κραδίῃσι δεδέχθαι·
λώϊον ὧδε γὰρ ἕρδειν ἡμέας ἠὲ θεοῖο
οὐ πινυτῇσι φρέσιν τεράτων ἐπιπάγχυ λαθέσθαι.
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: 239
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) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s) Psalter
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Le Verbe presse son peuple avec bonté, intelligence
et éloquence à recevoir sa précieuse loi dans le coeur :
en effet, mieux vaut pour nous le faire que manquer entièrement,
faute d’attention, les signes de Dieu.
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: 238
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 220v), 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 4
Occurrence(s) [36614] NA [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 134r)
(3 verses)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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