Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6203
(formerly typ/4183)

	Ὁ χοῦς ἀμέτροις ἐντακεὶς κακουχίαις
	ποιεῖ σε νοῦν ἄπληστον ἐν θεωρίαις.

Title(s)	Ἀλεξίου φιλοσόφου καὶ γεγονότος μεγάλου διδασκάλου
Text source	A. Kambylis, 1976, Symeon Neos Theologos, Hymnen, Berlin: 26
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Alexios (didaskalos, philosophos)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Symeon the Theologian (949-1022) - PMBZ: 29643: "Personenkennziffer: 27488"
Tag(s)	Praise of the author
Comment	The epigram is also preserved in the 16th-century manuscript Vat. gr. 1782.
Bibliography	Primary J. Migne, 1880, Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca (vol. 120), Paris: 307 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2019, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 2), Vienna: 187, n. 94
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[23981] Ὁ χοῦς ἀμέτροις ἐντακεὶς κακουχίαις [14th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 103 [14th c.] (f. 14v) (2 verses) [32753] Ὁ χοῦς ἀμέτροις ἐντακεὶς κακουχίαις [14th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 427 [14th c.] (f. 101v) (2 verses) [32552] Ὁ χοῦς ἀμέτροις ἐντακεὶς κακουχίαις [14th c.] ZWICKAU - Ratsschulbibliothek Ms. III [14th-15th c.] (f. 7v) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 585: "Alexius philosophus et magnus didascalus, In laudem Symeonis Novi Theologi"
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