Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5836
(formerly typ/3854)

Ἀνδράσι Θεσσαλίας τάδε δεύτερα ἰσόθεος φώς.
Title(s) In Pauli epistulam secundam ad Thessalonicenses
Text source DBBE
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s)
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s) Paul (apostle, saint)
Tag(s)
Critical Notes 1 Θεσσαλίας ] Θεσσαλίης Rhoby; ἰσόθεος ] οὐράνιος Rhoby
Translation(s) Das als zweites (schickt) der himmlische Mann den Männern Thessaliens.
Language
German
Source(s)
A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 304
Comment Six manuscripts (London, British Library, Add. 19388 and Add. 37003; Ann Arbor, Univ. of Michigan Library, 34; Sinai, Monè tès Hag. Aikaterinès, gr. 277; Kobenhavn, KB, GkS 1322,4°; Athos Iberon 60) contain a slightly different version of this epigram, reading οὐράνιος instead of ἰσόθεος.
Bibliography

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Number of verses 1
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Lotte van Olmen, Julián Bértola

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Identification BEiÜ IV, GB16
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