Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5328
(formerly typ/3372)

	Τὸν ὅρκον, ὡς πῦρ καὶ τεθηγμένον ξίφος,
	ἄνθρωπε, φεῦγε, μὴ μάχαιρα τῆς δίκης
	στίλβουσα καὶ τέμνουσα ῥομφαίας πλέον
	σφάξῃ, φαγῇ σὲ μέχρις αὐτῶν ὀστέων,
	καὶ τὸ φλέγον φλέξῃ σε πῦρ αἰωνίως.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Eustathios of Ikonion < Turkey - PBW: Eustathios/103/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	(Spiritual) advice to the reader
Translation(s)	Juramentum, ut ignem et acutum ensem, homo, fuge, ne gladius justitiae fulgens et caedens rhomphaea vehementius, trucidet, voretque te usque ipsa ad ossa, et comburat te urens ignis in aeternum. Language Latin Source(s) E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 422
Comment	= Anth. Gr. Append. IV.116δ
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 679 E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 422
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[22189] τὸν ὅρκον, ὡς πῦρ καὶ τεθηγμένον, ξίφος [12th-15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 20 [11th c.] (f. 1r) (5 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 780: "Eustathius Iconiensis, Versus paraenetici"
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Last modified: 2019-06-16.