Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2385
(formerly typ/462)

Σύμβολα θεσπεσίων ἱερῶν ἑνοειδέϊ μύθῳ
εἰς ἑνικὴν ἀνέλυσας ἑνὸς φάεος μίαν αἴγλην.
Title(s) Ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὸν μακάριον Διονύσιον εἰς τὸ περὶ τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἱεραρχίας
Text source S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 65
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s)
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Epigram on the blessed Dionysius, on the work De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia
The symbols of the divine sacred mysteries
You have resolved with a singular word to the single radiance of the one light.
Language: English
S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 65
Comment The epigram also occurs in the 17th-century manuscript Vat. Urb. gr. 5 (f. 141r).
Bibliography

Primary
Number of verses 2
Occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 695: "In s. Dionysium (de eccles. hierarchia)"
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