Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 7087
(formerly typ/4991)

	Οὐκ ἀνέμων βία με συντρίβει τόσον
	οὔτ᾿ ἀστραπῆς ὁ κτύπος ἢ βροχῆς χύσις,
	ὅσον θυμοβλαβής τε τήκει με φθόνος
	φαρμακοπνεύστων βασκάνων Ὑδρουντίων,
	οἵτινες οὐ παύουσιν ὀφθαλμῶν κόραις,
	ὡς πετροπομποῖς ὀργάνοις κατατρίβειν
	τὸν εὐτυχῆ με καὶ περίφημον δόμον
	τὸν συνανυψωθέντα χρημάτων βάρει,
	κεκτημένων τε χερσὶ ταῖς Ἰωάννου,
	οὗ τοῖς βροτοῖς ἄφθαρτον ἔσται τὸ κλέος.

Title(s)	Τοῦ αυτοῦ ὡς ἐκ μέρους τοῦ παλατίου αὐτοῦ
Text source	M. Gigante, 1979, Poeti bizantini di Terra d'Otranto nel secolo XIII. Testo critico, introduzione, traduzione, commentario e lessico, Napels: 84
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Nicholas of Otranto < Salento < Apulia < Southern Italy < Italy (son of John Grasso) (13th c.)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ioannes Grassos (13th c.) - PLP: II.4429 (notarios > notarios basilikos)
Tag(s)	Complaint
Translation(s)	Not the violence of the winds afflicts me so much nor the clash of lightning, nor massive rainfall as does the consuming effect of the heartbreaking jealousy of the poisonous and envious citizens of Otranto; who with the pupils of their eyes do not stop as if they were stone throwing machines, squandering my wealth and my very famous house, raised thanks to the abundant resources acquired by the hands of John; eternal will be his fame among mortals. Language English Source(s) P. Van Deun 2022, Probably Nicholas–Nektarios of Otranto: Verses Written on Behalf of a Palace, in F. Spingou (ed.), The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (vol. 2), Cambridge / New York, 1437-1439: 1438 Non la violenza dei venti né il fragore della folgore o flusso di pioggia mi abbatte tanto quanto mi consuma la rovinosa invidia dei detrattori Otrantini spiranti veleno, i quali con le pupille degli ochhi - quasi macchine lanciapietre - non cessano di mandare in rovina me fortunato e la famosa casa innalzata da grande quantità di ricchezze acquistate con le mani di Giovanni la cui gloria sarà inestinguibile fra i mortali. Language Italian Source(s) M. Gigante, 1979, Poeti bizantini di Terra d'Otranto nel secolo XIII. Testo critico, introduzione, traduzione, commentario e lessico, Napels: 90
Comment	According to Acconcia Longo & Jacob (1980-1982), this poem is to be attributed to Nicholas of Otranto, son of John Grasso, and not to his namesake Nicholas (monkname Nektarios) of Otranto.
Bibliography	Primary F. Bast, 1796, Specimen editionis novae epistolarum Aristaeneti, Vindobonae: 8 P. Van Deun 2022, Probably Nicholas–Nektarios of Otranto: Verses Written on Behalf of a Palace, in F. Spingou (ed.), The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (vol. 2), Cambridge / New York, 1437-1439: 1438 Secondary A. Acconcia Longo, A. Jacob 1980-1982, Une anthologie salentine du XIVe siècle: le Vaticanus gr. 1276, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (RSBN), 17-19, 149-228: 173-174 A. Jacob 1988, Une épigramme de Palaganus d'Otrante dans l'Aristénète de Vienne et le problème de l'Odyssée de Heidelberg, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (RSBN), 25, 185-203: 187 (n. 9)
Number of verses	10
Occurrence(s)	[26451] Οὐκ ἀνέμων βία με συντρίβει τόσον [13th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - phil. gr. 310 [13th c.] (f. 40v) (10 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, 566: "Nectarius Casulanus, Ut e palatio suo"
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