Type 36721

Τὰς ἔκπαλαί σου, δέσποτα, σωτηρίας
τίς ἐκλαλήσει; Καὶ γὰρ ᾠκειωμένους
τὸ πρίν ἀπώσω τῶν ἀπωσμένων χάριν.
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: 245
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) Qui énumérera toutes les fois où tu as apporté le salut par le passé,
Maître ? Car ceux qui t’étaient familiers,
tu les as rejetés auparavant à cause de ceux qui étaient rejetés.
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: 244
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 221r), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography
Number of verses 3
Occurrence(s) [36723] (...)ὰς εκπαλ(...) σο(...) δεσπο(...) σωτηριας [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 184r)
(3 verses)
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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