Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6602
(formerly typ/4504)

Κατὰ μίμησιν τῶν στίχων τοῦ Πισίδου
στίχους, φίλος, μάνθανε κεκροτημένους
πρὸς τὸν κραταιότατον αὐτάνακτά μου
Κομνηνὸν Ἀνδρόνικον Ἄγγελον Δούκαν
Παλαιολόγον, τὴν πνοὴν τῶν Αὐσόνων,
πρὸς ὃν λόγων δύναμις οὐδὲν ἰσχύει.
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s)
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Verses in rhythmical beat [written] in imitation of Pisides’ verses, learn, my friend, for my most powerful lord, Andronikos Komnenos Angelos Doukas Palaeologos, the breath of the Byzantines, to whom the power of logoi is not equivalent.
Language
English
Source(s)
N. Zagklas 2019, Byzantine Poetry: an Introduction, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas, W. Hörandner (eds.), A Companion to Byzantine Poetry, Leiden, 1-15: 1
Comment The epigram is probably not composed by Philes (cf. Martini 1900: 237).
Bibliography

Primary

N. Zagklas 2019, Byzantine Poetry: an Introduction, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas, W. Hörandner (eds.), A Companion to Byzantine Poetry, Leiden, 1-15: 1-2

Bibliography category to be determined

E. Martini, 1900, Manuelis Philae Carmina Inedita, Neapoli: 2, 237
Number of verses 6
Occurrence(s)
Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 401: "Manuel Philes, Ad Andronicum Papaeologum sen. imp."
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