Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5276
(formerly typ/3322)

Θεολόγῳ γλώττῃ σου τὰς συμπλοκὰς τῶν ῥητόρων
διαλύσας, ἔνδοξε, ὀρθοδοξίας χιτῶνα
ἄνωθεν ἐξυφανθέντα τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἐστόλισας.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Metre(s) Hymnography
Subject(s) Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Illustre, qui as de ta langue théologienne ruiné les entortillements des rhéteurs,
tu as paré l'Église de la tunique d'orthodoxie, tissée En-Haut.
Language
French
Source(s)
K. Demoen, V. Somers 2016, Grégoire de Nazianze, le Fils du tonnerre. Encore quelques adscripta métriques dans les manuscrits grégoriens, in V. Somers, P. Yannopoulos (eds.), Philokappadox. In memoriam Justin Mossay, Leuven, 199-221: 216
Comment These verses are part of the kontakion:
Ἦχος γ’. Ἡ Παρθένος σήμερον
'Θεολόγῳ γλώττῃ σου, τάς συμπλοκὰς τῶν ῥητόρων, διαλύσας ἔνδοξε, ὀρθοδοξίας χιτῶνα, ἄνωθεν, ἐξυφανθέντα τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ, ἐστόλισας, ὅν καί φοροῦσα, σύν ἡμῖν κράζει, τοῖς σοῖς τέκνοις· Χαίροις Πάτερ, θεολογίας ὁ νοῦς ὁ ἀκρότατος'.
Bibliography

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Number of verses 3
Occurrence(s) [22108] θεολόγω γλώττη σου τὰς συμπλοκάς τῶν ρητόρων [14th c.]
VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 77 (coll. 502) [14th c.] (f. 509r)
(3 verses)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Cristina Cocola

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