Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24071
(formerly occ/8032)

	ἤν τίς ποταμὸ(ς) τῶ κροίσω χρυσορρόας
	θησαυρὸ(ς) ἁβρὸ(ς) κ(αὶ) χορηγὸς χρυσίου
	ψυχὴν ἀπολλὺς τὴν φιλόχρυσον φύσει :-
	ἄλλος ποταμὸ(ς) οὗτο(ς) ὁ χρυσορρόας
	λόγους ῥέων λάμποντ(ας) ὑπὲρ χρυσίον
	ψυχὰς τὲ ῥωννὺς τὰς φιλοχρίστ(ους), πλέ(ον) :-
	εἰ μὲν θέλ(εις) ἄνθρωπε πλίνθους χρυσίνους
	ζηλῶν ἐκείνου τὴν φιλόχρυσον φρένα,
	τῶ λιδικῶ πρόσελθε καὶ χρυσὸν λάβης :-
	εἰ ψυχικόν δε ῥύπον ἐκπλύναι θέλεις
	θηλῶν μάλιστα τ(ὰς) φιλοχρίστους φρέν(ας),
	τούτω προσελθὼν ἀρύου χρυσοῦς λόγ(ους) :~
	τοιοῦτο(ς) ἐστὶν οὗτο(ς) ὁ χρυσορρόας +++

Type(s)	[6262] Ἦν τίς ποταμὸς τῷ Κροίσῳ χρυσορρόας (13 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th c.
Manuscript	MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 110 (Vlad. 160) [9th-10th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1r
Palaeographical information	Written at the bottom of the folio in two columns, with the last verse in the middle of the line.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes homilies of John Chrysostom.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	John Chrysostom (saint)
Image source(s)	https://catalog.shm.ru/entity/OBJECT/176177?query=%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD.%20%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87.&sort=100&fund=21&index=0
Bibliography	Primary Archimandrite Vladimir, 1894, Sistematičeskoe opisanie rukopisej Moskovskoj Sinodal’noj (Patriarsej) Biblioteki. Rukopisi grečeskija (vol. 1), Moscow: 168 E. Dobrynina, 2013, Corpus of Greek Illuminated Manuscripts in Russian Collections. Manuscripts of the 9th – 10th cc. at the State Historical Museum (vol. 1.1), Moscow: 85
Number of verses	13
Acknowledgements	Information on the occurrence courtesy of Ioannis Vassis. Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Lev Shadrin The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Last modified: 2019-11-27.