Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3293
(formerly typ/1430)

	Ὅπλοις κραταιοῖς ἑλκύσας ζυγῷ στίφη,
	ἀνενδότοις, φεῦ, αὐχένας κάμψας κράτει,
	κατακλύσας δὲ δωτίναις εἶδος ἅπαν
	ἀνδρῶν, γυναικῶν καὶ τόπων καὶ ταγμάτων,
	νῦν εὖ νικῶν εἴργασται, ὦ σκιᾶς λάτρη
	προφητελάτοις χαλινοῖς γνάθους στρέφων
	εὖ τοῦ παθόντος τῷ νικηθῆναι λόγῳ.
	Ἄλλοις χρόνοις ἤκουσε "πολλὰ πολλά σοι
	τελοῖεν" εὐχαῖς ἀλαλαζόντων "ἔτη".
	Θρυλλοῖτο νῦν δὲ τοῖς ἀπείροις τῶν χρόνων
	ὁ στρατιώτης, ὁ στρατηγὸς ὁ βρέμων
	Καντακουζηνὸς ὡς ἄναξ Ἰωάννης
	σεπτοῖς τε συζῶν ἁγίοις Ἰωάσαφ.
	Τάξει πάσῃ γὰρ ἐξέλαμψεν ἐλλόγως.

Title(s)	Σίμωνος ἀρχιεπισκόπου Θηβῶν
Text source	G. Fedalto, 1968, Simone Atumano, monaco di Studio, arcivescoco di Tebe secolo XIV, Brescia: 123-124
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Simon Atumano (14th c.) - PLP: I.1648 (archiepiskopos of Thebai < Boeotia < Central Greece < Greece, episkopos of Gerace < Calabria < Southern Italy < Italy)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ioannes VI Kantakouzenos (1292-1383) - PLP: V.10973
Tag(s)	Monastic conversion Praise of the author
Critical Notes	10 θρυλλοῖτο νῦν δὲ ] θρυλλοῖ τὸν υἱὸν δὲ Eustratiades (contra metrum)
Bibliography	Primary S. Eustratiades 1919, Ἁγιορειτικῶν κωδίκων σημειώματα, Γρηγόριος ὁ Παλαμᾶς, 3, 624-639: 639 S. Eustratiades, V. Arkadios, 1924, Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν τῇ ἱερᾷ μονῇ Βατοπεδίου ἀποκειμένων κωδίκων, Cambridge: 68 S. Kadas, 2000, Τὰ σημειώματα τῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Ἱερᾱς Μεγίστης Μονῆς Βατοπαιδίου, Mount Athos: 62
Number of verses	14
Occurrence(s)	[20306] Ὅπλοις κραταιοῖς ἑλκύσας ζυγῷ στίφη [15th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 346 [15th c.] (f. 323v) (14 verses) [19134] Ὅπλοις κραταιοῖς ἑλκύσας ζυγῶ στίφη [15th c.] EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca Σ.III.4 [15th c.] (f. 306r) (14 verses) [22128] Ὅπλοις κραταιοῖς ἑλκύσας ζυγῶ στῖφη [14th c.] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 151 (coll. 393) [14th c.] (f. 208r) (14 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Raf Praet, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Paratexts of the Bible (Pinakes) , 79 Vassis ICB 2005, 538: "Simon Atumanus, In Ioann. Cantacuzenum imp."
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