Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4353
(formerly typ/2447)

Ὁ γρήγορος νοῦς, ἡ θεόφθογγος λύρα
ᾄδει τὰ τερπνὰ τῆς ἀληθείας μέλη.
Text source K. Demoen 2019, Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext, in M. Kanellou, C. Carey, I. Petrovic (eds.), Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era, Oxford, 66-84: 80-81
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s) Praise of the author
Translation(s) The vigilant mind, the lyre sounding from God
sings the agreeable songs of the truth.
Language
English
Source(s)
K. Demoen 2019, Epigrams on Authors and Books as Text and Paratext, in M. Kanellou, C. Carey, I. Petrovic (eds.), Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era, Oxford, 66-84: 80
Bibliography

Primary
Number of verses 2
Occurrence(s) [20680] ὁ γρήγορος νοῦς ἡ θεόφθογγος λύρα [10th c.]
PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 384 [10th c.] (f. 39v -- (alt.) p. 692)
(2 verses)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Julián Bértola, Lev Shadrin, 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, 506: "In laudem s. Gregorii Theologi"
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