Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18614
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	πολυχρονηθεὶς ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας:
	κωνσταντῖνε ἄριστε (...)
	ὡς ἐλαιῶν νεόφυτω κύκλω τῆς σῆς τραπέζης:
	καὶ κατατρύφα τῶν μελιρρύτων λόγων:
	αὖθις χρυσοστόμου τε τοῦ σοφωτάτου:
	ἐγγὺς ὑπάρχει πανταχοῦ σοι προσδόκα:
	κἄν εὔτονός τις καὶ σφριγῶν τὸ σαρκίον:
	ἄδηλος ἐστὶ καὶ νέοις καὶ πρεσβύταις:
	εἰς ἡλιακοὺς μακροκυκλοῦντας δρόμους:
	ἴδοις υἱοὺς τῶν σῶν υἱῶν ἑν βαθυτάτω γήρα.
	ἀεὶ τὸ τέρμα τῶν ἐμῶν χειρῶν βλέπων:
	τοῦ παμμάκαρος καὶ σοφοῦ βασιλείου:
	πλήν εἰσαεὶ βέλτιστε τοῦ βίου πέρας:
	κἄν ἦς ἐν ἀκμῆ κἂν νεάζεις εἰσάγαν:
	ἡ γὰρ δρεπάνη τῆς τομῆς τοῦ θανάτου:
	πλήν χαῖρε λαβὼν καὶ τὸ τῶν πόνων πέρας:

Type(s)	[2924] Πολυχρονηθεὶς ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας (16 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1335
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 363 [1335]
Place in Manuscript	f. 319v
Palaeographical information	Written in columns, to be read vertically. Initials seem to be written in a lighter ink.
Metre(s)	Decapentasyllable Dodecasyllable Mixture
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Basil the Great (330-379) (episkopos of Kaisareia < Cappadocia) John Chrysostom (saint)
Comment	The meter is dodecasyllable, except for vv. 3 and 10, which are politic verses. The second verse was partially erased. The epigram refers to the content of the manuscript, since it contains a commentary of John Chrysostom on Genesis.
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279380095-ms/?sp=330
Bibliography	Primary V. Beneševič, 1911, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum qui in monasterio Sanctae Catharinae in monte asservantur. Codices manuscripti notabiliores bibliothecae monasterii Sinaitici ejusque metochii Cahirensis, ab archimandrita Porphyrio (Uspenskio) descripti (vol. 1), Saint-Petersburg: 204 F. Euangelatou-Notara, 2000, Χορηγοί-κτήτορες-δωρητές σε σημειώματα κωδίκων. Παλαιολόγειοι χρόνοι, Athens: 228
Number of verses	16
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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