Type 6906
(formerly typ/4817)

Τοὺς δὲ νόμους ἐχάραξε Θεὸς δέκα ἔν ποτε πλαξὶ
Λαϊνέαις· σὺ δέ μοι ἔγγραφε τῇ κραδίῃ.
Οὐ γνώσῃ Θεὸν ἄλλον, ἐπεὶ σέβας οἶον ἑνός γε.
Οὐ στήσεις ἴνδαλμα κενὸν, καὶ ἄπνοον εἰκώ.
Οὔ ποτε μαψιδίως μνήσῃ μεγάλοιο Θεοῖο.
Σάββατα πάντα φύλασσε μετάρσια καὶ σκιόεντα.
Ὄλβιος, ἢν τοκέεσσι φέρῃς χάριν, ἣν ἐπέοικε.
Φεύγειν ἀνδροφόνον παλάμης ἄγος, ἀλλοτρίης τε
Εὐνῆς, κλεπτοσύνην τε κακόφρονα, μαρτυρίαν τε
Ψευδῆ, ἀλλοτρίων τε πόθον, σπινθῆρα μόροιο.
Title(s) Ἡ τοῦ Μωϋσέως Δεκάλογος
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s) Moses
Comment The poem (Greg. Naz. carm. I,1,15) does not function as a book epigram but in the ms. Ann Arbor 24 appears among other poems by Gregory of Nazianzus that accompany the Gospel.

The second line is a pentameter.
Bibliography
Number of verses 10
Occurrence(s) [25898] Τοὺς δὲ νόμους ἐχάραξε θ(εὸ)ς δέκα ἔν ποτε πλαξί [14th c.]
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan Library 24 [1291-1325] (f. 144r-144v)
(10 verses)
Acknowledgements
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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 794: "Greg. Nazianzenus, Moysis decalogus"
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