Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5776
(formerly typ/3793)

Αἴνων λαμψάντων τοῦ κτίστου τῶν ἁπάντων
ἀγακλεῶν ὕψιστα τοῖσδε τοῖς ὕμνοις·
ἔστωσαν αἶνοι τῶν βροτῶν θρυλλουμένων
σοφῶν μεγίστων δυνατῶν τέφρα κόνις.
Text source DBBE (based on occurrence Ἔνων λαμψάντ(ων) τοῦ κτίστου τῶν ἁπάντ(ων))
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s)
Person(s)
Poet
Neochorites (14th c.) - PLP: VIII.20182 (grammatikos)
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s) Reference to content of the book
Comment The poem also occurs in the 17th-century manuscript Athos, Mone Megistes Lauras Λ 59.
Skaltsis (2008: 4) lists these verses among the poems by Metrophanes (DBBE Person 1566).
Bibliography

Primary

P. Skaltsis (ed.), 2008, Θηκαρᾶς. Στίχοι εἰς τοὺς θείους Ὕμνους. Διονυσίου καὶ Μητροφάνους, Περὶ τῶν Ὕμνων. Θηκαρᾶ Μοναχοῦ, Λόγοι περὶ πίστεως, Ἑρμηνεία τῶν Ὕμνων, ̔Ωρολόγιον τῶν θείων Ὕμνων, Ἀσκητικὴ Ἀκολουθία, Χαροποιὰ Πένθη. Θεοδούλου Μοναχοῦ, Διήγησις καὶ Ἀνθολόγιον περὶ τῶν Ὕμνων, Mount Athos: 4

Secondary
Number of verses 4
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Contributor(s)
Cristina Cocola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 21: "Neochorites mon., In Thecaram"
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