Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4930
(formerly typ/2989)

	Ὁπλιτικῆς φάλαγγος οἰκεῖον μέλος,
	ὁ τοῦ βάρους σὺ κλῆσιν εἰληφὼς φέρεις.
	ἦχον τὸν ἁπλοῦν τὸν βάρους ἐπώνυμον,
	ὁ τοὺς λογισμοὺς ἐν βοαῖς μισῶν φιλεῖ.
	ἀνδρῶν δὲ ᾆσμα, δευτερότριτε, βρέμεις.
	ποικίλος δὲ ὤν, ὁ ἁπλοῦς, ἔχεις φίλους.

Text source	1885, Παρακλητική ήτοι Οκτώηχος η Μεγάλη: περιέχουσα άπασαν την ανήκουσαν αυτήν Ακολουθίαν, μετά των εν τω τέλει συνήθων προσθηκών, Rome: 613
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Theodoros Kyzikenos (episkopos)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Eight Tones Music
Tag(s)	Liturgy Reference to content of the book
Critical Notes	1 οἰκεῖον ] ἥδιον ms. Patm. 54 6 ποικίλος δὲ ὤν, ὁ ἁπλοῦς, ] ὢν ποικίλος δὲ τοὺς ἁπλοῦς Sternbach
Bibliography	Primary L. Sternbach 1900, Analecta Byzantina, Ceské Museum filologické, 6, 291-322: 307 W. von Christ, M. Paranikas, 1963, Anthologia graeca carminum christianorum, Hildesheim: CXXIII Secondary A. Kominis, 1988, Πατμιακὴ βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι νέος κατάλογος τῶν χειρογράφων κωδίκων τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ Θεολόγου, Athens: 138
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[21619] Ὁπλιτικῆς φάλαγγος ἥδιον μέλος [12th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 54 [12th c.] (f. 178r-178v) (6 verses) [24159] Ὁπλιτικῆς φάλαγγος οἰκεῖον μέλος [1276-1300] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. app. XI 31 [1276-1300] (f. 191v) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Lev Shadrin, Cristina Cocola, 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, 538: "Theod. ep. Cyzicenus, In tonum gravem"
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