Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5784
(formerly typ/3802)

Οὐ τῶν μαχαιρῶν Θηκαρᾶς οὗτος, φίλε,
ψυχαῖς δὲ ποιεῖ ταῖς σοφαῖς κατοικίαις.
Text source 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
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s)
Person(s)
Poet
Demetrios Staphidakes (14th c.)
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Thekaras
Tag(s)
Comment The poem also occurs in the 16th-century manuscript Athens, Mouseio Benaki, Kuriaze 13 (f. 262r) and the 17th-century manuscript Athos, Mone Megistes Lauras Λ 59.
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

D. Skrekas 2018, Translations and Paraphrases of Liturgical Poetry in Late Byzantine Thessalonica, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Texts and Contexts, Turnhout, 245-282: 261
Number of verses 2
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 579: "Staphidakes, In Thecaram"
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