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This epigram appears predominantly in late-/post-Byzantine manuscripts, where it often functions as a probatio pennae with multiple iterations and comprises from one to four verses. A number of occurrences feature a variant reading for verse 4: 'καὶ εἰς τὸν φόρον ἐντραπῇς ] τὸ φῶρον'.
The epigram also occurs in:
- the 18th-century manuscript Sofia, Cărkovno-istoričeski i archiven institut 860 (on the inner face of the upper cover, three times on f. 69r, on f. 69v and three times on f. 70v) (Getov 2014: 196);
- the 16th/17th-century manuscript Sofia, Cărkovno-istoričeski i archiven institut 881 (on f. 20v and f. 80v) (Getov 2014: 247);
- the 16th-century manuscript Sofia, Cărkovno-istoričeski i archiven institut 321 (p.7), where it is written down by a later hand (Getov 2017: 79);
- the 16th-century manuscript Sofia, Cărkovno-istoričeski i archiven institut 342 (p. 556), where it is written down by a later hand (Getov 2017: 98);
- the 16th-century manuscript Sofia, Cărkovno-istoričeski i archiven institut 401, where it is written down several times by later hands (Getov 2017: 144);
- the 17th-century manuscript Sofia, Cărkovno-istoričeski i archiven institut 531 (ff. 14r, 99r, 110v, 203v, 204v), where it is written down by a later hand (Getov 2017: 188). |
