Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20308
(formerly occ/3959)

	+ τὸ τετραπλοῦν σύνταγμα τῶν χ(ριστο)ῦ λόγων
	τέτρωρον ὥσπερ ἅρμά σοι ζεύξας ἅμα
	διφρηλάτην ἄλλον σε καινὸν ἠλίαν
	ποθῶ κατιδεῖν ἐνθέως ἐπηρμένον.
	εἰ γὰρ ἐπιβῆς δεξιῶς τῆς ἁψίδος
	καὶ τὰς νοητὰς ἡνίας ἀναλάβης
	τοὺς πρακτικοὺς ἵππους τε καλ(ῶς) δαμάσ(εις),
	νύσσαν πρὸς οὐράνιον ἰθύνων τρέχειν,
	καὶ σὺ φανήσῃ καλὸς ἡνιοστρόφος
	παύων ἐκεῖσε τὸν δρόμον σὺν ἠλία
	πλὴν ὡς ἐκεῖνος ἀλλὰ (καὶ) σύ μοι χάριν
	κἂν οὐχὶ διπλὴν, ἀλλ' ἁπλὴν εὐχὴν δίδου,
	δωρόθεός σοι ταῦτα προσφόρως γράφει
	ὁ τῆς τε βίβλου τὴν γραφὴν ἐξανύσας
	καὶ παῖς σὸς ἐν πν(εύματ)ι καὶ μονότροπος +

Type(s)	[4159] Τὸ τετραπλοῦν σύνταγμα τῶν Χριστοῦ λόγων (15 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th-14th c.
Manuscript	ATHOS - Mone Pantokratoros 34 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 250v
Person(s)	Scribe Dorotheos (13th-14th c.) - VGH: 115.B - PLP: III.5919 (monachos)
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of the four gospels.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Four Evangelists
Comment	Lampros (1895: 96): 'Ἐν τέλει μεταξὺ ἄλλων χολιάμβων'. Lampros only refers to vv. 13-14.
Image source(s)	http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=69&left=-130&top=-760&site=INTF&image=31391/0/5030/20/1211
Bibliography	Primary S. Lampros, 1895, Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς βιβλιοθήκαις τοῦ Ἁγίου Ὄρους ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων (vol. 1), Cambridge: 96
Number of verses	15
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'. Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Lotte van Olmen
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